confessing

英 [kənˈfesɪŋ]

美 [kənˈfesɪŋ]

v.  供认，坦白，承认(错误或罪行); 承认(自己感到羞愧或尴尬的事); 忏悔(罪过); 悔过; 告罪; 告解
confess的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 承认，供认，坦白(自己做错的事)
  If someoneconfessesto doing something wrong, they admit that they did it.
  1. He had confessed to seventeen murders...
     他供认了17起谋杀案。
  2. Her husband confessed to having had an affair...
     她丈夫承认有过外遇。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 'I played a very bad match,' he confessed.
     “这场比赛我打得很差。”他坦白道。
• VERB (向上帝或神甫)忏悔，告解(罪过)
  If someoneconfessesorconfessestheir sins, they tell God or a priest about their sins so that they can be forgiven.
  1. You just go to the church and confess your sins...
     你干脆去教堂忏悔自己的罪过吧。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 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.
  1. I confess it's got me baffled...
     我承认这把我难倒了。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Can you believe this guy keeps confessing?
  你能相信这家伙常去教堂吗？
• If you mean confessing, we're bound to do that.
  如果你说的是招供，那我们还是要招供的。
• I'm confessing that I stumble.
  而是承认我一直在蹒跚而行。
• It is like a gourmand confessing he loves McNuggets.
  这就像让一位美食家承认他喜欢吃快餐店里的老什子炸鸡一样难堪。
• She gave her aunt no handle for explaining or confessing.
  她不会给姑母有可乘之机来作什么解释与忏悔。
• And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
  犹太全地，和耶路撒冷的人，都出去到约翰那里，承认他们的罪，在约旦河里受他的洗。
• What prevents many of us from confessing and from being more open generally is the feeling that if other people knew us as we were, then they would no long accept us.
  一般来说，妨碍我们大多数人坦白和更为开放的是，我们担心一旦别人知道我们的过去，他们将不会接受我们。
• A genuinely Christian life cannot ordinarily be lived outside a true Christ confessing covenant community.
  在真正的认信基督的圣约团体以外，通常是无法活出纯正的基督徒生活的。
• He surprised me by confessing his sins.
  他坦白认罪使我吃惊。
• Pray in our own way, confessing our needs, and trust Him to do the rest.
  我们只要真诚祈祷，向神坦诚我们的需要，并信靠圣灵会替我们作馀下的工作。