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vt. 承认；坦白；忏悔；供认
vi. 承认；坦白；忏悔；供认
v.
供认；坦白；承认；悔过
变形
过去式：confessed过去分词：confessed现在分词：confessing第三人称单数：confesses
双语释义
v.(动词)vt. & vi. 承认,供认 acknowledge; admit
vt. 忏悔 (of a priest) hear (a person) tell his sins in order to obtain forgiveness
英英释义
confess[ kən'fes ]
v.
confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure
同义词：squealshrivefink
admit, make a clean breast of
"She confessed that she had taken the money"
同义词：concedeprofess
confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith
词汇搭配
用作动词 (v.)
～+名词
confess a crime认罪
confess one's faults认错误
confess the letter (to be) a forgery承认这封信是伪造的
confess one's love坦陈爱慕之意
confess one's mistakes认错
confess one's sins忏悔罪过
～+副词
confess soon很快承认
confess candidly〔frankly, honestly〕坦率地承认
confess fearfully害怕地承认
confess hesitatingly犹豫不决地承认
confess openly公开地承认
confess readily乐于承认
confess sincerely诚恳地承认
confess sorrowfully伤心地承认
confess truthfully如实地承认
confess willingly自愿地承认
～+介词
confess to供认…
confess to being astonished at sth承认对某事大吃一惊
confess to cheating on the exam承认考试作弊
confess to a crime坦白罪行
confess to doing sth bad承认做了不好的事情
confess to God向上帝忏悔
confess to the police向警察供认
confess to the priest向牧师忏悔
同近义词辨析
concede, acknowledge, recognize, admit, confess这组词都有“承认”的意思，其区别是：
concede指在事实与证据面前勉强或不得不承认。
acknowledge通常指公开承认某事的真实情况或自己的过错。
recognize作“承认”解时，系书面用词，主要指合法的或外交上的承认，也指公认。
admit强调因外力或良心驱使或经判断而明确承认，多含不情愿或被迫意味。
confess语气较强，着重承认自己意识到的错误或罪行，含坦白忏悔的意味。
admit, confess这组词都有“承认”的意思，其区别是：
admit 指大胆地承认以前试图不论或推诿的坏事。如：John has admitted to breaking the window. (约翰已承认打破了窗玻璃。)
confess 常指承认错误，罪行等。如：The thief confessed his crime to the police. (小偷向警察承认了罪行。)
concede, admit, confess这组词都有“承认”的意思，其区别是：
concedev.指曾想隐瞒或不愿意承认某一错误，但由于证据确凿而不得不勉强承认，还可以指"以退为进"的承认。
The man who caused the accident finally conceded to the police that he had done it.造成这次交通事故的人最终向警察承认他是肇事人。
admitv.指由于说服、再三追问而"承认"某一事实或过错。
I admit that you have a point.我承认你有理。
confessv.供认(罪行、过错等)，含有"坦白、招认"的意思。
He confessed his crimes to the judge.他向法官供认了他的罪行。
acknowledge, assigned, allocate, allot, admit, confessacknowledge表承认某事可以承担责任
assigned用途明确，但“指定”意味强，常常暗示分配人的武断性
allocate正式用词，尤指政府部门拨出定额款项的行为
allot指完整或定量的东西分为若干份来分配，不强调公平性和数量上的平均
admit表被迫承认做过某事
confess承认一些不好的事情，常有“忏悔”之意
双语例句
用作动词(v.)
I confess you are right on one point.
我承认你在某一点上是正确的。
Now, I must confess that I'm at my wit's end.
现在我必须承认我已毫无办法。
He confessed that he had never seen her before.
他承认以前从未见过她。
He refused to confess to his crime.
他拒绝认罪。
This elderly Italian guy goes to his parish priest to confess.
一位年长的意大利男人来向他的神父告解。
Many Christians regularly confess to a priest.
许多基督徒定期向神父忏悔。
The priest confessed the young man.
神父听取那个青年的忏悔。
权威例句
Competence to ConfessWhat Makes Sex Offenders Confess? An Exploratory Study
CONFESS — An Incentive Compatible Reputation Mechanism for the Online Hotel Booking Industry
A critical review of published competency-to-confess measures.
Our ordered lives confess : three nineteenth-century American missionaries in East Shantung
The reasons why suspects confess during custodial interrogation: data for Northern Ireland.
Competence to confess: measuring understanding and suggestibility of defendants with mental retardation
You’re guilty, so just confess!: Cognitive and behavioral confirmation biases in the interrogation room
On the Criminalization of the System of Leniency to Those Who Confess Their Crimes
Custodial interrogation: Why do suspects confess and how does it relate to their crime, attitude and personality?
confess
confess: [14] Confess comes from Latin confitērī ‘acknowledge’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and fatērī ‘admit’ (a relative of English fable, fame, and fate). Its past participle was confessus, and this was taken as the basis of a new Vulgar Latin verb *confessāre, which passed into English via Old French confesser.=> fable, fame, fate
confess (v.)
late 14c., from Old French confesser (transitive and intransitive), from Vulgar Latin *confessare, from Latin confess-, past participle stem of confiteri "to acknowledge," from com- "together" (see com-) + fateri "to admit," akin to fari "speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)). Its original religious sense was of one who avows his religion in spite of persecution or danger but does not suffer martyrdom. Old French confesser thus had a figurative sense of "to harm, hurt, make suffer." Related: Confessed; confessing. An Old English word for it was andettan.
1. We persuaded her to confess her crime.
我们说服她坦白她的罪行。
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2. She was reluctant to confess her ignorance.
她不愿意承认自己无知。
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3. "I confess to being a big wuss," she admitted.
“我承认我是个胆小鬼。”她实话实说。
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4. You just go to the church and confess your sins.
你就去教堂忏悔你的罪过吧。
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5. I confess myself bewildered by their explanation.
我承认他们的解释使我感到困惑。
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6. He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
他有认错和赎罪的机会。
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7. I must confess to knowing nothing about computers.
我得承认对电脑一窍不通。
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8. I had expected her to confess that she only wrote these books for the money.
我曾期望她承认她写这些书仅仅是为了钱。
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9. I must confess something to you.
我必须向你坦白一些事情。
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10. We have to confess that it's more than that.
我们必须承认事实远不止如此。
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11. Confess what is wrong, then it can be settled.
承认错误，然后才能解决问题。
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12. I will never confess that I could not see the stuff.
我决不承认我看不见那些东西。
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13. People who confess to feeling happy also grin more than others.
承认感觉幸福的人们也会比别人更喜欢咧着嘴笑。
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14. St. John paled, and hastened to say, "I was in fault, I do confess it."
圣约翰脸色苍白，急忙说：“我承认，我错了。”
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15. Don't criticise others for their flaws if you are not willing to confess your own.
如果你不愿意承认自己的缺点，那么就不要批判他人的过错。
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16. "It grieves me to confess it had indeed escaped me," said Tom, in a hesitating voice; and blushed again.
“我真难过，我承认我实在是忘了这回事。”汤姆吞吞吐吐地说；并再次脸红了。
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17. I confess that with online surveys I just click the option that's closest to my mouse cursor to get the damn thing off my screen.
我承认，对于在线调查，我只是点击离我的鼠标光标最近的选项，就为了把那该死的东西从我的屏幕上拿开。
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18. Although at this point, I have to confess that I only know a small percentage of people when we look at it from a global perspective.
尽管在这一点上，我不得不承认，从全球的角度来看，我只认识一小部分人。
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19. I must confess that if I had been in the young lady's place, I would, at least, have swept the hearth and wiped the tables with a duster.
我必须承认，如果我处在这位年轻的小姐的位置上，至少，我会打扫壁炉，用个鸡毛帚掸掸桌子。
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20. I confess I enter this in a skeptical frame of mind, believing that we tend to get carried away in our desire to reduce everything to the quantifiable.
我承认我是抱着怀疑的态度来看待这个问题的，我相信我们往往会被自己想要把所有事情都减少到可以量化的欲望冲昏头脑。
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21. What has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams, as easily and openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar.
现在的情况是，人们不能像以前那样轻易、公开地完全承认自己的梦想，惟恐别人认为他们爱赶时髦、贪得无厌、庸俗不堪。
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22. Confess your sins to God and he will forgive you.
向上帝忏悔，上帝就会宽恕你。
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23. I am half ashamed to confess it.
承认这事我真有些羞愧。
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24. Most people confess to a bad memory.
大多数人都承认记性差。
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25. I have something to confess.
我有事要坦白。
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26. OK, I'll confess a weakness.
好的，我先承认一个嗜好。
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27. Exhort her to confess the truth!
劝诫她招认真情吧！
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28. Exhort her to confess the truth!
劝诫她招认真情吧！
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