qualm

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n. 晕眩, 不安, 疑虑 [法] 疑虑, 不安, 内疚

发音

UK /kwɑːm/
UK /kwɔːm/
US /kwɑ(l)m/
US /kwɔ(l)m/
US /kwæm/

词形变化

qualms 复数 qualms qualmed qualming qualms 三单 qualming 现在分词 qualmed 过去式 qualmed 过去分词

别名

calm

教材释义与例句

名词

疑虑；不安

释义与例句

n. C2
  1. 1.

    A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.

  2. 2.

    A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.

  3. 3.

    A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.

    This lawyer has no qualms about saving people who are on the wrong side of the law.

  4. 4.

    Mortality; plague; pestilence.

    英国 古体 方言
  5. 5.

    A calamity or disaster.

    英国 古体 方言
v.
  1. 1.

    To have a sickly feeling.

    不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

misgiving queasiness scruple squeamishness

上位词 3

sickness anxiety nausea

词源

Perhaps from Middle English qualm, cwalm (“death, sickness, plague”), which is from Old English cwealm (West Saxon: "death, disaster, plague"), ūtcualm (Anglian: "utter destruction"), from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm (“killing, death, destruction”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to stick, pierce; pain, injury, death”), whence also quell. Although the sense development is possible, this has the problem that there are no attestations in intermediate senses before the appearance of "pang of apprehension, etc." in the 16th century. The alternative etymology is from Dutch kwalm or German Qualm (“steam, vapor, mist”) earlier “daze, stupefaction”, which is from the root of German quellen (“to stream, well up”). The sense “feeling of faintness” is from 1530; “uneasiness, doubt” from 1553; “scruple of conscience” from 1649.

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