| 词汇 | qualm |
| 释义 | qualm noun[ Cusually plural ] uk /kwɑːm/ us /kwɑːm/ an uncomfortable feeling when you doubt if you are doing the right thing: 疑虑;内疚;不安 She had no qualms about lying to the police.她向警方说谎但却并未感到良心不安。 Suspecting & questioning ask questions of someone/somethingidiom challenge challengingly cynic cynical about someone/something cynically cynicism doubt interrogate query reserve sceptical sceptically scepticism skeptic skeptical skeptically suspect suspected suspiciously qualm | American Dictionaryqualm noun[ Cusually pl ] us/kwɑm, kwɔm/ an uncomfortable feeling of doubt about whether you are doing the right thing: Unfortunately, he said, there are people who have no qualms about bringing in replacement workers for strikers. Examples of qualmqualm I have qualms about the force of their claim that 'the present tense behaves normally on this interpretation'. Yet judges had few qualms about overturning long-standing rating practices if those practices violated the judges' sense of justice. I have no qualms about recommending this is a classroom edition. Career-path qualms are not exclusive to peripatetic teachers; school music teachers may experience similar worries. Rejecting the dictates of an increasingly intolerant society, they had no qualms about imposing gender roles on women. They seemed to have few qualms regarding the effect this might have on their children's identities. Scientists and military figures who voiced their ufological faith in the press seem to have had no qualms with the term. Upon doing so, however, they often developed serious qualms about the justification of continuing their scientific pursuits. Perceval and his colleagues were particularly strict church-and-king disciplinarians, and they had no qualms about terrorizing the press. The lure of career enhancement was more than enough to overcome any ethical qualms they might have. I have no qualms about the first, for it is a first. But apart from the liberal qualms, why would any pregnant woman want to make such a commitment? It seems much more reasonable to suppose that they could, for example, have moral qualms about harming some but not all individuals. Not being postmodern, this book has no qualms about proposing a grand narrative. In rare cases, the qualms are strong enough that some staff members need to transfer to other units. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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