Confessional
[kən'feʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [kən'fɛʃənl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others.
(a.) Pertaining to a confession of faith.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The impulse under which I acted, the mood controlling me, were similar to the impulse and the mood which had induced me to visit the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Awful crimes, no doubt; but he did not tell me what: there, you knowthe seal of the confessional checked his garrulity, and my curiosity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I could find none of these in closet or chamber, so I went and sought them in church and confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The priest within the confessional never turned his eyes to regard mehe only quietly inclined his ear to my lips. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Emanuel drew nigh month by month--the sliding panel of the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a pensionnat de demoiselles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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