confess

confess

美 [kənˈfes] 　英 [kən'fes]

• v.忏悔；坦白；告解；承认（自己感到羞愧或尴尬的事）
• 网络供认；自白；倾诉

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Many folks still prefer good old Notepad or vi (I confess I'm one of those folk) and that's a great option as well.

许多人仍偏爱好用古老的记事本或vi（我承认我也是其中一员），这并不要紧。

Therefore, we were a bit more willing to confess our activities to Anne and sometimes benefited from her sisterly advice.

因此，我们更愿意向安妮坦白我们的所作所为，并且有时还会得益于她从姐姐角度所给出的建议。

She laughs and covers her mouth with her hand, as if about to confess a guilty secret.

她捂住嘴笑了，仿佛要承认一个罪恶的秘密。

The U. S. State Department has no comment but officials privately confess to a certain "schadenfreude" at Chinese difficulties.

美国国务院没有发表评论，但官员们私下里坦诚，他们对中国的困境感到有些“幸灾乐祸”。

I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers.

我也不知道该怎么想，不过说实话，我从没见过哪个人的脸蛋和身材能像她的那样迷人。

Of course, I only had about six years of it, and I confess I may not even have been aware that it was the 19th century.

当然，我只有6年的经历，而且坦白的说，当时我可能根本没有意识到那就是19世纪。

Lowry denied the allegations and said he was pressured by federal agents to confess.

劳莱否认这一控诉并说他是因为受到联邦特工的逼迫才作出承认的。

Torture was formerly used to make people give evidence about crimes, or to make them confess.

酷刑拷打原本用来逼迫受刑者给出犯罪证据，或是认罪。

Many confess they originally took a qualifying test "just to see if I could make it. "

许多人承认，他们参加一次门萨资格测验，起初“纯粹是为了看看自己能不能达标”。

Nor am I ashamed to confess my ignorance of what I do not know.

因此我是不知道的事就承认说不知道，并不害羞。

I confess that as a young girl I loved a man who would not marry me for want of a dowry.

我承认，作为一个年轻的姑娘我喜欢一个人谁不希望我结婚的嫁妆。

am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

我不耻于承认对自己不懂的事情的无知。

Some human confess simple sins, like this as stealing a clam or starting at the cleft of a woman's bosom.

有些人忏悔一般的小过错，比如偷了一只蛤蜊或者偷看女刚出生的孩子的乳沟。

I have to confess that Whitewater, especially the attacks on Hillary, took a bigger toll on me than I thought it would.

我必须承认，白水事件，尤其是对希拉里的抨击，对我造成的负面影响比我原先想像的要大。

Scarlett knew that Rhett was not being patriotic and, though she would have died rather than confess it, she did not care.

思嘉知道瑞德并不爱国，而且，尽管她宁死也不承认，她对此毫不在乎。

I must confess that this trip was one the best ones I've had in a long time.

我也得承认，现在我认为这趟旅行在很长一段时间里最好的。

I was about to put my opinion to the test by inquiring of this gentleman when you interrupted with your own--larger theory, I must confess.

我正要寻问这位绅士来证实我的看法，恰好被你的理论所打断，当然是更大的理论，我必须承认。

Try to avoid raising his fears that he might lose you if he were to confess to his true sexuality .

设法避免加强他的恐惧感，他也许会害怕因为交代了自己真实的性倾向而失去你。

Your letter arrived a few days ago and I must confess that this obligation completely slipped my mind.

你方的信几天前已到，我必须承认，我把这件事给忘了。

Hett chose to keep Anakin's burden a secret, for it was ultimately up to Anakin to confess his transgressions to the Jedi Council.

赫特决定保守阿纳金的秘密，因为阿纳金必须自己向绝地委员会坦白罪责。

You would soon find it out if I had not the honesty to confess it.

要是我不老老实实地承认这一点，那你很快也会觉察出来的。

I must confess it grieved me that I must be the instrument to abuse so honest a gentleman.

想到我要做欺骗这个诚实君子的工具，心里的确很难过。

In August, I confess, the thought of suicide more than once crossed my own mind.

我承认，自杀的念头在8月间也曾不止一次掠过我自己的心头。

I confess to having heard of it.

我承认听说过那事。

I confess I felt a little shy.

坦白地说，我倒有点害臊。

I confess I do not understand.

说句心里话，我是听不懂。

The question of its literary value settled, then, I can confess that for me this little book has considerable value as testimony.

人们对它的文学价值有所定论之后，我才敢放心大胆地承认这本小册子对我的重大价值，这是我内心的自白。

I would not be entirely honest, however, if I did not confess disappointment with some of the consequences of Bush administration policies.

不过，要是我说不对布什政府一些政策后果感到失望，就有些言不由衷了。

To confess the truth, I began to feel dizzy and then I got palpitations and felt limp.

说实在话，我起初感觉眩晕，然后心悸虚弱无力。

How do I confess that my prediction about him getting hurt is all down to his own mother?

我怎么能承认我给他的会受伤的预言是因为自己的母亲？

Who can save them. There was no god but themselves. The moment they started to confess was the beginning of their self-redemption.

谁能拯救他们？没有上帝，只有他们自己，从忏悔的那一刻开始，也是他们寻求自赎之路的开始。

I must confess the news did come as something of a surprise to us.

我得说这消息对我们而言真是出乎意料

but the recapture of the Hispaniola was a clenching answer, and I hoped that even Captain Smollett would confess I had not lost my time.

也许我会因为擅离职守而受到指责，但夺回伊斯班袅拉号则是最有力的答复。我希望就是斯莫列特船长也会承认我没有浪费时间。

She did bring herself, finally, to confess, and confide in me: there was not a soul else that she might fashion into an adviser.

最后她自己招认了，而且向我吐露了衷曲。除了我，还有谁能作她的顾问。

I confess there was more than one moment in 1981 when I felt ready to throw in the towel.

我坦率承认，在1981年，我不止一次感到要认输了。

Need I confess that all this was just a means of getting to sleep?

需要我坦白说，这些都只是催眠的手段吗？

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。

Confess to me all that lies between us, all that lies between you and me. We are the boxers in the ring. We are the bells that never sing.

向我忏悔我们之间的一切，你和我之间的一切。我们是听到铃声的拳击手。我们是永不会歌唱的铃铛。

Newman would later confess that the uptight, reserved Mr Bridge was the role closest to his own personality.

纽曼后来承认，片中那个不安，保守的布瑞吉先生是最接近他性格的角色。

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。

The police have got a confession out of her, ie have made her confess.

警方逼她招了供。

You would soon find it out if I had not the honesty to confess it.

要是我不老老实实地承认这一点，那你很快也会觉察出来的。

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夫人的地位上，至少，我要扫扫壁炉，用个鸡毛帚掸掸桌子。

I confess I pray still to feel the touch of my lover's lips. His hands upon me, his arms enfolding me. . . Such surrender has been mine.

我坦白，我祷告还可以感受到我情人的唇，他的手，他的臂膀，还在拥抱和抚摸着我，这样的臣服才是我的。

I confess that it is principally because of this that I mount the podium today, that the question of socialism might finally be settled.

我承认我今天站在这个讲坛主要是因为社会主义的问题最终要被决定。

She knew that she must confess the truth to Robert before he witnessed something that would alarm him.

她了解到她必须在罗伯特注意到什么之前向他坦白。