confession
听听怎么读
英 [kənˈfeʃn]
美 [kənˈfɛʃən]
是什么意思
承认，自首；忏悔；供认状；信条，教义
变形
复数：confessions
英英释义
confession
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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)
学习怎么用
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
- They saw compromise as a confession of weakness.
他们认为妥协就是自认孱弱。 - Such an explanation is tantamount to a confession.
这样一种解释等于一篇自白。 - 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。 - 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 police tricked him into making a confession.
警察哄骗他作了招认。 - The priest made a deathbed confession.
牧师做了临终忏悔。
权威例句
The Confession of the fleshConfession, inhibition, and disease.Public Confession and ForgivenessThe psychology of confession evidence.What a "Patient-Centered"should mean: Confession of an extremistThe psychophysiology of confession: linking inhibitory and psychosomatic processes.Governmentalities of an Airport: Heterotopia and ConfessionConfession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative researchOn 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
