- 1良心不安、愧疚（最常出現在 without compunction：毫無愧疚）
Compunction is a feeling that you should not do something because it is bad or wrong — a little stab of conscience. Though actually, you will hear it most when the feeling is missing: he had no compunction about lying means he lied and did not feel bad at all. Without compunction means without a second thought, and without guilt. It is a rather word, a little old. Friends would say I felt bad about it or I didn't care. If you do feel compunction, you pause; the feeling is trying to stop your hand.
組成拉丁文 com-（加強）+ pungere（刺）。字面是「被刺了一下」——良心像被針扎。中古英語從古法文、晚期拉丁文 compunctionem（a pricking）借入。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
compunctionnoun/kəmˈpʌŋk.ʃən/
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A pricking of conscience or a feeling of regret, especially one which is slight or fleeting.
- Besides, to do De Joinville justice, he felt, too, a degree of kindly compunction for the former harsh judgment entertained of one who so little deserved it; and—for there is no such thing in the human mind as an unmixed sensation—he was struck both with the spirit with which she resented, and the proud humility with which she forgave the affront.
- His age—his kindness, disarmed Pen’s anger somewhat, and made Arthur feel no little compunction for the deed which he was about to do.
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