剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - confess collapse

confess
/kən'fes/
verb [I or T]
I
* to admit that you have done something wrong or something that you feel guilty or bad about
坦白；供认，招认；承认（错误或罪行）

1. [+ that] She confessed to her husband that she had sold her wedding ring.
她向丈夫坦白她卖掉了结婚戒指。

2. He confessed to sleeping /having slept through most of the film.
他承认看这出电影时，大部分时间都在睡觉。

3. He has confessed to the murder.
他供认了谋杀罪行。

4. [+ (that)] I have to confess (that) when I first met Ian I didn't think he was very bright.
我要承认，我第一次见到你丈夫的时候，觉得他不是很聪明。

5. I found it all very confusing, I must confess.
我要承认，我觉得这一切太令人费解了。

6. [R] The director confessed him self (to be)puzzled by the company's losses.
主管坦言自己对公司的亏损感到困惑。

* in the Christian religion, especially the Roman Catholic Church, to tell God or a priest what you have done wrong so that you can be forgiven
（基督教、尤指天主教中向上帝或神父）忏悔

1. to confess your sins
忏悔你的罪过

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - confess collapse

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1.VERB 动词承认，供认，坦白(自己做错的事) If someone confesses to doing something wrong, they admit that they did it.

【语法信息】：V to n/-ing

【语法信息】：V that

【语法信息】：V n

【语法信息】：V

【语法信息】：V with quote

【语法信息】：Also V wh

  • He had confessed to seventeen murders...

    他供认了17起谋杀案。

  • Her husband confessed to having had an affair...

    她丈夫承认有过外遇。

  • I had expected her to confess that she only wrote these books for the money...

    我本以为她会承认写这些书只是为了钱。

  • Most rape victims confess a feeling of helplessness...

    大部分强奸案受害者都承认有一种无助的感觉。

  • Ray changed his mind, claiming that he had been forced into confessing...

    雷翻了供，声称自己是被逼招供的。

  • 'I played a very bad match,' he confessed.

    “这场比赛我打得很差。”他坦白道。

2.VERB 动词(向上帝或神甫)忏悔，告解(罪过) If someone confesses or confesses their sins, they tell God or a priest about their sins so that they can be forgiven.

【语法信息】：V n

【语法信息】：V n to n

【语法信息】：Also V

  • You just go to the church and confess your sins...

    你干脆去教堂忏悔自己的罪过吧。

  • Once we have confessed our failures and mistakes to God, we should stop feeling guilty.

    一旦我们向上帝告明了自己的过失和错误，就不该再觉得内疚。

3.PHRASE 短语我承认，我必须承认(用来对自己的过失等略表歉意) You use expressions like 'I confess', 'I must confess', or 'I have to confess' to apologize slightly for admitting something you are ashamed of or that you think might offend or annoy someone.

【搭配模式】：PHR with cl

【语用信息】：politeness

  • I confess it's got me baffled...

    我承认这把我难倒了。

  • I must confess I'm not a great enthusiast for long political programmes.

    我必须承认自己对时间很长的政治节目不是很热衷。

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - confess collapse

confess
con·fess / kEn5fes / verb1. ~ (to sth / to doing sth) to admit, especially formally or to the police, that you have done sth wrong or illegal
   供认,坦白,承认(错误或罪行):
  ▪ [V]
   She confessed to the murder.
   她供认犯了谋杀罪。
   After hours of questioning, the suspect confessed.
   经过数小时的审问后,嫌疑犯终于招供。
  ▪ [V (that)]
   He confessed that he had stolen the money.
   他承认他偷了那笔钱。
  ▪ [VN]
   We persuaded her to confess her crime.
   我们说服她坦白她的罪行。
2. ~ (to sth / to doing sth) to admit sth that you feel ashamed or embarrassed about
   承认(自己感到羞愧或尴尬的事):
  ▪ [VN]
   She was reluctant to confess her ignorance.
   她不愿承认她的无知。
  ▪ [V]
    I must confess to knowing nothing about computers.
   我得承认对电脑一窍不通。
  ▪ [VN-ADJ] (formal) I confess myself bewildered by their explanation.
   我承认他们的解释使我感到困惑。
  ▪ [also V (that) , V speech]
⇨ see also self-confessed
⇨ note at admit
3. [V , VN] ~ (sth) (to sb) (especially in the Roman Catholic Church 尤指罗马天主教会) to tell God or a priest about the bad things you have done so that you can say that you are sorry and be forgiven
   忏悔；悔过；告罪；告解
4. [VN] (of a priest 神父) to hear sb confess their sins (= the bad things they have done)
   聆听(某人的)忏悔(或告罪、告解)

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - confess collapse

confess verb

• ADVERB freely, openly, publicly, readily | allegedly

• VERB + CONFESS have to, must I must ~ that I didn't have much faith in her ideas.

• PREPOSITION to He was arrested and ~ed to the murder. | She ~ed to me that she had known his true identity for some time.

Confess is used with these nouns as the object: crime, feeling, guilt, ignorance, love, sin

The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - confess collapse

confess
 1.
   confess to
   to admit or admit having; acknowledge
 2.
   stand confessed as
   to be revealed or admitted as

牛津英语同义词学习词典 - confess collapse

confess verb
⇨ admit 1 (confess your ignorance) ⇨ admit 2 (confess to murder)

新牛津英语同义词词典 - confess collapse

confess

verb
1 he confessed that he had attacked the old man
ADMIT , acknowledge, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, make public, avow, declare, blurt out, profess, own up to, tell all about, bring into the open, bring to light; informal blow the lid off; archaic discover.
-opposite(s): CONCEAL ; DENY.

2 they tried everything they could think of to make him confess
OWN UP , admit guilt, plead guilty, accept blame/responsibility, be completely honest, tell the truth, tell all, make a clean breast of it, unbosom oneself; informal come clean, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, get something off one's chest, let on; Brit. informal cough.

3 I confess I don't know
ACKNOWLEDGE , admit, concede, grant, allow, own, say, declare, affirm, accept, recognize, be aware of/that, realize, be conscious of/that.

词源记忆 - confess collapse

confess 坦承
con-, 表强调；-fess, 说，交谈，词源同phone, profess.