confess
英 [k?n'fes]
美[k?n'f?s]
- vt. 承認；坦白；懺悔；供認
- vi. 承認；坦白；懺悔；供認
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詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?confesses;過去式:?confessed;過去分詞:?confessed;現在分詞:?confessing;
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confess“肯反思”-----懺悔
中文詞源
confess 坦承
con-, 強調。-fess, 說，交談，詞源同phone, profess.
英文詞源
- confess
- confess: [14] Confess comes from Latin confitērī ‘acknowledge’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and fatērī ‘admit’ (a relative of English fable, fame, and fate). Its past participle was confessus, and this was taken as the basis of a new Vulgar Latin verb *confessāre, which passed into English via Old French confesser.
=> fable, fame, fate - confess (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French confesser (transitive and intransitive), from Vulgar Latin *confessare, from Latin confess-, past participle stem of confiteri "to acknowledge," from com- "together" (see com-) + fateri "to admit," akin to fari "speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).
Its original religious sense was of one who avows his religion in spite of persecution or danger but does not suffer martyrdom. Old French confesser thus had a figurative sense of "to harm, hurt, make suffer." Related: Confessed; confessing. An Old English word for it was andettan.
雙語例句
- 1. You just go to the church and confess your sins.
- 你干脆去教堂懺悔自己的罪過吧。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Let us now confess our sins to Almighty God.
- 現在讓我們向上帝懺悔我們的罪惡。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I must confess I'm not a great enthusiast for long political programmes.
- 我必須承認自己對時間很長的政治節目不是很熱衷。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Right off I want to confess that I was wrong.
- 我立刻就想承認我錯了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Most rape victims confess a feeling of helplessness.
- 大部分強奸案受害者都承認有一種無助的感覺。
來自柯林斯例句