confess

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v. 承认, 坦白, 忏悔, 供认

发音

US /kənˈfɛs/

词形变化

confess'd confessed confessedst confesses 三单 confesses confessest confesseth confessing confest confessing 现在分词 confessed 过去式 confessed 过去分词

别名

confesse

教材释义与例句

动词

承认；坦白；忏悔；供认

释义与例句

v. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.

    承认

    忏悔

    供认

    招认

    坦白

    招供

    不及物 及物

    I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!

    I confess that I am a sinner.

  2. 2.

    To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.

    宣信

    及物
  3. 3.

    To unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.

    宗教
  4. 4.

    To hear or receive such a confession of sins from.

    及物 宗教

    1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.

  5. 5.

    To disclose or reveal.

    告解

    披露

    透露

    及物
  6. 6.

    To profess one's love.

    不及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 4

squeal fink concede profess

上位词 2

admit acknowledge

下位词 2

fess up own up

相关短语

if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything

词源

From Middle English confessen, from Anglo-Norman confesser, from Old French confesser, from Latin confessus (Old French confés), past participle of cōnfiteor (“to confess, admit”) from con- + fateor (“to admit”). Displaced Middle English andetten (“to confess, admit”) (from Old English andettan). Doublet of confiteor. Sense 6 is a calque of 告白 (kokuhaku).

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