confession
英 [kənˈfeʃn] 美 [kənˈfɛʃən]

n.

承认，自首；忏悔；供认状；信条，教义

变形

复数：confessions

英英释义

confession

• n.
  • 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)

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. They saw compromise as a confession of weakness.
   他们认为妥协就是自认孱弱。
2. Such an explanation is tantamount to a confession.
   这样一种解释等于一篇自白。
3. His confession involved a number of other politicians in the affair.
   他的自白供出其他一些政治人物也涉及此事。
4. By clever questioning they trapped him into making a confession.
   他们用巧妙的提问诱使他招认了。
5. The police tricked him into making a confession.
   警察哄骗他作了招认。
6. The priest made a deathbed confession.
   牧师做了临终忏悔。

权威例句

The Confession of the flesh
Confession, inhibition, and disease.
Public Confession and Forgiveness
The psychology of confession evidence.
What a "Patient-Centered"should mean: Confession of an extremist
The psychophysiology of confession: linking inhibitory and psychosomatic processes.
Governmentalities of an Airport: Heterotopia and Confession
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
On the power of confession evidence: an experimental test of the fundamental difference hypothesis
"I'd know a false confession if I saw one": a comparative study of college students and police investigators