| 单词 | guilt |
| 释义 | guilt (once / 94 pages) n You experience guilt when you feel bad about doing something wrong or committing some offense. Guilt is also the state of having committed the offense — it's the opposite of "innocence." The noun guilt stems from the Old English word gylt, meaning "crime, sin, fault, or fine." Feelings of guilt are typical after you've done something you shouldn't have, like cheating on your spelling test or stealing from your little brother's piggy bank. We often say that our conscience is the source of this feeling. If you're the prosecuting attorney in a criminal trial, your job is to prove the guilt of the defendant, that is, to prove that they committed the crime you're accusing them of. WORD FAMILYguilt: guiltless, guilts, guilty+/guiltless: guiltlessly, guiltlessness/guilty: guiltier, guiltiest, guiltily, guiltiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe Swedish activist says he was partly driven by “middle-class guilt” but also a conviction that people should be the masters of their own destinies. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Food should not be about denial, guilt or killing ourselves. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) A team led by prominent capital defense lawyer David Bruck represented Roof during the guilt phase of the trial. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the state of having committed an offense Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper guiltiness innocence a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense blameworthiness, culpability, culpableness a state of guilt bloodguiltthe state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder complicityguilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense criminalism, criminality, criminalnessthe state of being a criminal guilt by associationthe attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty impeachability, indictabilitythe state of being liable to impeachment condition, status a state at a particular time 2n remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense Syn|Hypo|Hyper guilt feelings, guilt trip, guilty conscience survivor guilt a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died compunction, remorse, self-reproach a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) |
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