English Dictionary

moral compass

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌmɒɹəl ˈkʌmpəs/

名詞

古語

An inner sense which distinguishes what is right from what is wrong, functioning as a guide for morally appropriate behaviour.

日本語の意味

内面的な感覚で、何が正しいか、何が間違っているかを判断し、適切な行動へと導く基準や指針となるものです。 / 自分の行動において、正義や倫理を見極めるための内なるガイド、道徳的なコンパスとしての意味を持ちます。

When faced with a difficult decision, she relied on her moral compass to choose the path that would cause the least harm.

困難な決断に直面したとき、彼女は善悪の判断基準となる内なる感覚を頼りに、最も害を少なくする道を選んだ。

意味（1）

An inner sense which distinguishes what is right from what is wrong, functioning as a guide for morally appropriate behaviour.

To every sane man in all climes and ages the great Creator has given a moral compass to enable him to avoid the wrong and follow the right. This moral compass we call conscience.

意味（2）

A belief system, person, etc. serving as a guide for morally appropriate behaviour.

Their catastrophe stemmed from disregarding Christian doctrine: radix malorum est cupiditas (greed is the root of all evil). Without a moral compass, [Robert] Stone's characters cannot even plead ignorance.

意味（3）

(archaic) The full range of actions, vices, or virtues, which may affect others and which are available as choices to a person, group, or people in general.

[W]hile blowing opposite arguments from every point of the moral compass, the adventurous Baron quietly saw himself left to navigate his own vessel his own way, through this storm of his own raising.

moral compasses （ plural ）