confession
[kən'feʃən]
n.自认, 自白, 招供, 忏悔
例句与用法:
Catholics go to confession to be purged of sin/purge (away) their sin/purge their souls of sin.
天主教徒透过告解以获得赦罪[净化灵魂]。
The police tricked him into making a confession.
警察哄骗他作了招认。
By clever questioning they trapped him into making a confession.
他们用巧妙的提问诱使他招认了。
The priest made a deathbed confession.
牧师做了临终忏悔。
The police tried to twist his words into a confession.
警察试图曲解他的话,使之成为有罪的招供。
After confession he feels a little better and can sleep at ease.
忏悔之后他觉得好过一点,并且能安眠了。
n.
1. 承认; 坦白, 供认; 供状[C][U]
Has the thief made a confession yet?
窃贼招供了吗?
2. 【宗】忏悔; 告解[U][C]
She is a good Catholic and goes to confession regularly.
她是个虔诚的天主教徒, 按时作告罪。
3. (表明信仰等的)声明, 表白[C][(+of)]
4. (有共同信条的)宗教团体, 教派[C][G]
confession
名词复数:confessions
词义辨析:
同义:
n.承认
acknowledgment
admission
allowance
concession
acceptance
recognition
leveling
n.供认, 交代, 坦白
disclosure
revelation
divulgence
shrift
declaration
avowal
同义参见:
profession
confession[kən'feʃən]n.1.■承认;自白,自认;坦白,交代;招供2.■供状,口供;自白书,悔过书3.■(对神甫的)忏悔;告罪;告解4.■(尤指基督教徒正式加入教会前所作的)信仰声明[亦称 confession of faith]5.■殉教者、忏悔者的坟墓(或圣坛)
confessionconfession[kənˈfeʃən]n.1.■坦白; (对神父所作的)忏悔2.■【律】自白书, 口供3.■【宗】(基督教会具有某种特殊教规的)殉教者坟墓[祭坛]4.■信仰的宣告[声明]; 教规; 教派
noun
- a formal statement admitting that one is guilty of a crime
认罪;供认,招供;供状:
he signed a confession to both the murders.
他在两件谋杀案的供状上都签了字。
[mass noun]proof of this crime must be established by confession.
他在两件谋杀案的供状上都签了字。
■an admission or acknowledgement that one has done something about which one is ashamed or embarrassed
认错;坦白;承认
by his own confession, he had strayed perilously close to alcoholism.
据他自己承认,他曾险些误入歧途,沾染嗜酒的恶习。
■a formal admission of one's sins with repentance and desire of absolution, especially privately to a priest as a religious duty
(尤指对神父的)忏悔。 参见sacrament of reconciliation
she still had not been to confession.
她仍未去忏悔。
■(confessions)(often humorous)intimate revelations about a person's private life or occupation, especially as presented in a sensationalized form in a book, newspaper, or film
(常幽默)(尤指书报,电影中以耸人听闻的手法暴露某人私生活或职业的)私生活揭秘,忏悔录
confessions of a driving instructor.
一位驾驶教练的自白。 - (亦作 confession of faith)a statement setting out essential religious doctrine
(宗教)信仰声明
■(亦作 Confession)the religious body or Church sharing a confession of faith
(有共同信条的)宗教团体,教派,教会
■a statement of one's principles:
信仰声明;行为准则的声明
his words are a political confession of faith.
他的话是一种政治信仰的声明。
confessionary
adjective
语源
- late Middle English: via Old French from Latin confessio(n-), from confiteri 'acknowledge' (see confess)
confession
名词 confession:
an admission of misdeeds or faults
a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party
(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution
a public declaration of your faith
a document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)
confession
■Belgic Confession: General revelation = call.
-- 比利时信仰告白:普遍启示也是呼召。
■I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
18我要承认我的罪孽。我要因我的罪忧愁。
■To fess up is to confess or admit something.
fess up就是承认,坦白的意思。
■Open confession is good for the soul.
[谚]直认无讳,身心泰然。
■A priest visited her to confess her every day.
一位神父天天前来听她忏悔。
■Never confess to past infidelities.
不要承认过去的不忠。
■A deathbed confession; deathbed pallor.
临死前的忏悔; 临终前的苍白
■He made a voluntary confession to the police.
他主动向警方坦白。
■His flight amounts to a confession of guilt.
他之逃亡不啻自认犯罪
■He might have been able to confess to Simonetta.
他也许能向西蒙内塔忏悔。
■They forced a confession from him .
他们从强迫他招供。
■They wrung a confession from the prisoner.
他们从犯人口中逼取了口供。
■They confess to murders they haven't committed.
他们供认了自己未犯的谋杀罪。
■They wrung a confession from her .
他们千方百计逼她招供。
■They extorted a confession from him by torture.
他们对他进行刑讯逼供。
■By clever questioning they trapped him into making a confession.
他们用巧妙的提问诱使他招认了。
■They tortured the prisoner until he made a confession.
他们给犯人施酷刑,直至他招供为止。
■They saw compromise as a confession of weakness.
他们认为妥协就是自认孱弱。
■They squeezed a confession from him.
他们逼他招供。
■He made a false confession which he later retracted.
他作了假供词,后来又翻供。
■His anger was, to a degree, a confession of defeat.
他发怒,多少是承认了自己的失败。
■He later recanted his confession.
他后来翻供。
■He claims that police forced him to sign a confession.
他声称警方强迫他签下自白书。
■His confession of ignorance of French is, ipso facto, a confession of unfitness for his present office.
他承认不懂法文,事实上就等于承认不适合担任他现在的职务。
■His confession that he had stolen my wallet shocked me.
他承认偷了我的皮包,这使我大吃一惊。
■He refused to confess to his crime.
他拒绝认罪。
■Has he made a confession yet?
他招供(或坦白)了吗?
■He had a chance to confess and expiate his guilt.
他有认错和赎罪的机会。
■He was thinking of his long, humiliating confession.
他正想着他那篇长长的,羞辱的自供。
■He was not man enough to confess the truth.
他没有足够的勇气去承认事实真相。
■His confession surprised everyone.
他的供词使大家都感到意外。
■His confession lent credit to the report.
他的供词使此篇报导可信。
■She was affected to tears by his confession .
他的悔过使她感动得流泪。
■His conscience compelled him to confess .
他的良心迫使他承认。
■His words may have been intended as a confession of personal error.
他的话也可能是在为自己的错误现身说法。
■He was shocked into a confession of guilt.
他被吓得认罪了。
■Caught in the act, he had no alternative but to confess.
他被当场抓住,除了招供别无出路。
■He was coerced into making a confession.
他被迫招供。
■He signed the confession under duress.
他被迫无奈在供状上签了字。
■Did he spill Hoah's confession?
他讲了挪亚忏悔的内容吗?
■He claimed that he signed the confession under duress.
他说他是被迫在认罪书上签字的。
■You must confess that I am right.
你得承认我是对的。
■You had better make a full confession.
你最好坦白交待。
■Did you confess your love for her?
你有没有向她表白?
■Will you confess this in the letter?
你能在信中承认这一点吗?
■Following her confession, the IOC stripped her of her medals.
供认后,国际奥委会随即没收了她的奖牌。
■A confession, as of having committed a crime.
供认如承认犯罪事实的坦白
■The results of confession were not contingent, they were certain.
供认的结果不是偶然的,而是必然的。
■Confession remained the touchstone of guilt or innocence.
供词仍旧是作为有罪与无罪的检验标准。
■Just Evidences,who the Truth confess, .
公道的证物,它道出真诚,.