| 词汇 | salve your conscience |
| 释义 | salve your consciencesalve your conscience formal GUILTY/FEEL GUILTYif you do something to salve your conscience, you do it to make yourself feel less guilty 使良心得到宽慰，减轻内疚感 SYN ease Examples from the Corpus salve your conscience• But do not let us allow their punishment to salve our consciences.• We are there to salve their conscience and to administer their guilt money.• Don't think you can salve your consciences by giving us money. We won't forgive you that easily.• She felt guilty and tried to salve her conscience by inviting him out for a meal.• The international community has so far salved its conscience by voicing a succession of pious hopes.• It was to salve her conscience, she thought, and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer.• But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something, and she had not been for two weeks now. → salve your conscience at salve2(1) |
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