Confess
[kən'fes] or [kən'fɛs]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith.
(verb.) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure.
錄入:朱迪思--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
(v. t.) To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
(v. t.) To admit as true; to assent to; to acknowledge, as after a previous doubt, denial, or concealment.
(v. t.) To make known or acknowledge, as one's sins to a priest, in order to receive absolution; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To hear or receive such confession; -- said of a priest.
(v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest.
(v. i.) To make confession; to disclose sins or faults, or the state of the conscience.
(v. i.) To acknowledge; to admit; to concede.
雅克校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Acknowledge (as a crime or fault), own, avow.[2]. Admit, grant, concede, recognize.[3]. Attest, prove, show, exhibit, manifest, be proof of.
手打:卡尔
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Avow, aver, own, reveal, disclose, acknowledge
ANT:{[Disaver]?}, disavow, suppress, silentiate, deny
整理:马库斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to acknowledge fully esp. something wrong: to own or admit: to make known as sins to a priest: to hear a confession as a priest.—v.i. to make confession.—ns. Confes′sion acknowledgment of a crime or fault: avowal; a statement of one's religious belief: acknowledgment of sin to a priest; Confes′sional the seat or enclosed recess where a priest hears confessions.—adj. pertaining to confession.—ns. Confes′sionalism; Confes′sionalist.—adj. Confes′sionary of or belonging to confession.—n. a confessional.—ns. Confess′or one who professes the Christian faith or a priest who hears confessions and grants absolution: one who endures persecution but not death:—fem. Confess′oress; Confess′orship.—adjs. Confessed′ Confest′ admitted: avowed: evident.—advs. Confess′edly Confest′ly.—Confession of Faith a formulary embodying the religious beliefs of a church or sect: a creed.—Confess to to admit acknowledge; Stand confessed to be revealed.
錄入:索菲娅
例句/造句/用法:
- The idea did not originate in my own discernment, I am bound to confess, but in a speech of Rosa Dartle's. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Mine, I confess, are exhausted. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Don't confess and don't try to understand, Pilar said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He had been too fond of his cousin to like to confess this to himself, until the truth had been forced on him, when she drove off to her aunt's. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Now confess, Master Copperfield, that you haven't liked me quite as I have liked you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If he's done anything amiss, he shall confess, beg pardon, and be punished. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Why, it _is_ difficult, sir, I confess,' said the tall footman. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He had confessed a taste for the pursuit of love under difficulties; here was full gratification for that taste. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Attending court the other day--I attend it regularly, with my documents--I taxed him with it, and he almost confessed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It must be confessed, however, that the case looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very possible that he is indeed the culprit. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- If there was a sincere liking between George and the Major, it must be confessed that between the boy and his uncle no great love existed. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It must be confessed that he felt very happy at that moment leaning on the chair. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Edison confesses that he has never made a cent out of his patents in electric light and power--in fact, that they have been an expense to him, and thus a free gift to the world. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I'll take every drop of blood he has, unless he confesses! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- In respect of character a face may make certain admissions by its outline; but it fully confesses only in its changes. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- No, sir, cried Emma, it confesses no such thing. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He confesses that he has been suffering from want of sleep at night. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- At the very outset the report confesses that an accurate count of the number of prostitutes in Chicago could not be reached. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- At two this morning, he confesses that he opened the drawer in which his cigars are put away. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I don't put you to the pain of confessing it in so many words, because I see and know that you are too honest to deny it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He had died without even so much as confessing he was wrong. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I am never warm, Miss Halcombe, she remarked, with the modest air of a woman who was confessing to one of her own merits. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And I said, Miss;' here Sissy fairly sobbed as confessing with extreme contrition to her greatest error; 'I said it was nothing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I brought the paper back with me, and thought of destroying it, since I could see no way of returning it without confessing my guilt to my husband. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- All his nature held him back from confessing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
校對:斯宾塞