| 词汇 | prick somebody's conscience |
| 释义 | prick somebody's conscienceprick somebody's conscience GUILTY/FEEL GUILTYif something pricks someone’s conscience or their conscience pricks them, they feel guilty or ashamed 使某人的良心受到谴责，使某人的良心不安 Her conscience pricked her as she told the lie. 她撒谎的时候良心很不安。 Examples from the Corpus prick somebody’s conscience• Gordimer's novels pricked the conscience of white South Africans. → prick somebody’s conscience at prick1(1) |
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