scruple

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and every speculative scruple will be solved by practical public blessing.
并且每一个推测性的踌躇都将为符合实际的公共祝福所解决。
But then he had a scruple and looked more carefully, and realized that there was something new—not a big thing, a barely perceptible spot, but it wasn’t there on the old plate.
但这时他还是有点顾虑，于是又更仔细看了一眼，发现有样新的东西——不是很大的东西，而是几乎难以察觉到的斑点，但它不在那张旧的底片上了。
Well, look at this footnote: And the history of words after a poem is written may contribute meanings which if relevant to the original pattern should not be ruled out by a scruple about intention.
那么我们就来看一下这条脚注：,在诗产生后，语言的意思也就跟着产生了,这种意思如果和原始的形式不同,就不该有对作者意图的顾虑。

Well, look at this footnote: And the history of words after a poem is written may contribute meanings which if relevant to the original pattern should not be ruled out by a scruple about intention.
那么我们就来看一下这条脚注：,在诗产生后，语言的意思也就跟着产生了,这种意思如果和原始的形式不同,就不该有对作者意图的顾虑。
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There's no moral scruple.
完全没有一点道德顾虑。
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He senses something in the past that licenses violence against whites without scruple.
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It has now issued a warning to China's enthusiastic microbloggers that it might not scruple to do the same to their forums as well.
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a feeling that prevents you from doing something that you think is morally wrong or makes you uncertain about doing it
to not care that something you do is morally wrong or likely to have bad results

Scruples are moral principles or beliefs that make you unwilling to do something that seems wrong.