Old English cwealm (West Saxon) "death, murder, slaughter; disaster; plague; torment," utcualm (Anglian) "utter destruction," probably related to cwellan "to kill, murder, execute," cwelan "to die" (see quell). Sense softened to "feeling of faintness" 1520s; figurative meaning "uneasiness, doubt" is from 1550s; that of "scruple of conscience" is 1640s.
Evidence of a direct path from the Old English to the modern senses is wanting, but it is plausible, via the notion of "fit of sickness." The other suggested etymology, less satisfying, is to take the "fit of uneasiness" sense from Dutch kwalm "steam, vapor, mist" (cognate with German Qualm "smoke, vapor, stupor"), which also might be ultimately from the same Germanic root as quell.
qualm 英文释义
1. uneasiness about the fitness of an action
2. a mild state of nausea
qualm 双语例句
1. Did she see her husband as capable of murder? She had used the word without a qualm.
她觉得自己的丈夫可能杀人吗？在使用这个字眼的时候，她没有丝毫的不安。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Hurstwood suffered a qualm of body as the car rolled up.
当电车开上前时,赫斯渥浑身感到一阵不安.
来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
3. The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness.
博士显得好象一阵眩晕发作.
来自辞典例句
4. Lastly she arrived at the tresses and felt a qualm of disgust.
最后,她看到提到头发的那一句,心里觉得一阵恶心.
来自辞典例句
5. They never know that exam make us qualm and dissatisfaction.
他们永远也不会知道,考试令我们感到忐忑不安及不满.
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qualm 实用场景例句
He had been working very hard so he had no qualms about taking a few days off.
他一直辛勤工作，所以休息几天他觉得心安理得。
牛津词典
I have no qualms about recommending this approach...
我会毫不犹豫地推荐这一方法。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
Did she see her husband as capable of murder? She had used the word without a qualm.
她觉得自己的丈夫可能杀人吗？在使用这个字眼的时候，她没有丝毫的不安。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He felt the flowing qualm spread over him.
他觉得那股疑惧涌遍全身.
期刊摘选
The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness.
博士显得好象一阵眩晕发作.
辞典例句
They never know that exam make us qualm and dissatisfaction.
他们永远也不会知道,考试令我们感到忐忑不安及不满.
期刊摘选
Hurstwood suffered a qualm of body as the car rolled up.
当电车开上前时,赫斯渥浑身感到一阵不安.
英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
Lastly she arrived at the tresses and felt a qualm of disgust.
最后,她看到提到头发的那一句,心里觉得一阵恶心.
辞典例句
He felt a qualm in his stomach, and it was more in memory of his loneliness.
想到了很多以前的孤独生活, 他感到很不安.
期刊摘选
A soft qualm regret, flowed down his backbone, increasing.
淡淡的疑惧,悔恨之情, 顺着他的脊骨往下串.
期刊摘选
Did she see her husband as capable of murder? She had used the word without a qualm.
