scruple
n. 踌躇, 犹豫, 微量 vi. 踌躇, 有顾忌
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1.
Hesitation to act from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; doubt, hesitation or unwillingness due to motives of conscience; moral qualm.
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A weight of ¹⁄₂₈₈ of a pound, that is, twenty grains or one third of a dram, about 1.3 grams (symbol: ℈).
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A Hebrew unit of time equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
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A very small quantity; a particle.
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A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
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1.
To hesitate or be reluctant to act due to considerations of conscience or expedience.
不及物They wouldn't scruple to cheat us if given the opportunity.
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To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
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To regard with suspicion; to question.
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To question the truth of (a fact, etc.); to doubt; to hesitate to believe, to question.
不及物 废旧I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.
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词源
From Old French scrupule, from Latin scrūpulus (“(literally) a small sharp or pointed stone; uneasiness of mind, anxiety, doubt, trouble; scruple”) and scrūpulum (“one twenty-fourth of an ounce”), diminutives of scrūpus (“a rough or sharp stone; anxiety, uneasiness”); perhaps akin to Ancient Greek σκύρος (skúros, “the chippings of stone”), from ξυρόν (xurón, “razor”), from ξύω (xúō, “to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *ksew-. Doublet of escropulo and escrupulo.
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