【confess】 - A-level备考词汇

confess

UK:  [kən'fes]

US:  [kən'fes]

第三人称单数：confesses  现在分词：confessing  过去式：confessed  

v.

1.自白,承认,供认

2.表白(信仰);忏悔,向上帝[神父等]忏悔(罪恶)

3.(教士)听取(教徒)忏悔

4.(神父)听取忏悔

5.说,说实话,坦白地说,说句心里话

6.交代;坦白

7.表白,倾诉,吐露

8.证明

9.觉得

1 . And, lastly(I may as well confess it, as the denial of it would be believed by nobody), I shall perhaps not a little gratify my own vanity.
最后，我这样做，可能还会极大地满足我的虚荣心（我还是承认这一点好，否认是没有用的，谁也不会相信）。

2 . Perhaps he wants to confess and say how much he appreciates your discretion at the time.
也许对方就是想忏悔一下，顺便好好感激一下你当初的好眼力。

3 . Whatever you do, dont confess about how much you disliked working there, says Ms. Maslach.
马斯拉奇说，你无论如何都不要明说自己有多么讨厌这份工作。

4 . I confess. . . as a girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry.
我承认，当我还是一个女孩时，我爱上了一个男人，但他不会娶一个没有嫁妆的女孩。

5 . I must confess, though, if I don't use Ant for a while, I have to go back and look up a lot of the information just to do basic things.
但是，我必须承认，如果没有使用Ant一段时间，我必须查找大量的信息来完成基本的工作。