汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 扪心自问
扪心自问 (捫心自問)
to ask oneself honestly / to search in one's heart
Touching his chest, I asked myself how / Refers to self-reflection
抚着胸口向自己发问。指反省自己的行为。
() mén xīn () wèn
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

老师,请扪心自问,耶稣会怎么做?

Sir, ask yourself, what will Jesus do?

十年后,我不时扪心自问同样的问题。

Ten years later, I occasionally ask myself the same question.

这是我们应该经常扪心自问的话题。

This is what we should always ask ourselves topic.

你需要扪心自问的问题还不止这些?

The questions you have to ask yourself don't end there.

我们应当扪心自问,为什么在校园枪击案中,持枪歹徒几乎都是男性?

Why, we should ask, are the gunmen in school massacres almost always male?

倘若扪心自问,如何判断出这个问题比那个更紧迫的,我会回答说,人做出判断是基于问题包含的所有行为。

If I ask myself how to judge that this question is more urgent than that, I reply that one judges by the actions it entails.

也许最重要的是,你不会在几年后恍然醒悟,发现自己做着不喜欢的工作,然后扪心自问“我怎么还能在这个岗位上继续工作30年呢?”

Perhaps most importantly, you won't wake up a few years from now working in a career field you despise, wondering “How the heck am I going to do this for the next 30 years?