词汇精选：confess的用法和辨析
一、详细释义：
v.
坦白，供认，承认 [T]
例句：
For me, her pettishness is one of her charms, I confess it.
对我来说，我承认，她的怪脾气正是她的可爱之处。
例句：
I have to confess something.
我必须坦白一件事。
忏悔，告解 [T]
例句：
I absolve you, on the ground of invincible ignorance.
不会的，因为我们只要向神父忏悔我们的罪行，他们就不得不宽恕我们。
例句：
A priest visited her to confess her every day.
一位神父天天前来听她忏悔。
表明信仰，表白 [T]
例句：
Did you confess your love for her?
你有没有向她表白？
【书】证明 [T]
例句：
Do you want to confess it?
你想证明这件事吗？
二、词义辨析：
acknowledge,admit,confess,recognize,concede
这些动词均含“承认”之意。acknowledge通常指公开承认某事的真实情况或自己的过错。 admit强调因外力或良心驱使或经判断而明确承认，多含不情愿或被迫意味。confess语气较强，着重承认自己意识到的错误或罪行，含坦白忏悔的意味。recognize作“承认”解时，系书面用词，主要指合法的或外交上的承认，也指公认。concede指在事实与证据面前勉强或不得不承认。
三、参考例句：
I have to confess something.
我必须坦白一件事。
Did you confess your love for her?
你有没有向她表白？
Many Christians regularly confess to a priest.
许多基督徒定期向神父忏悔。
Do you want to confess it?
你想证明这件事吗？
But I confess it was me that started the wave.
但我必须承认是我掀起了人浪场面。
They tortured the man to make him confess his crime.
他们拷打那个人, 使他招认他的罪行。
The police tortured him to confess his crime.
警察拷打他，逼他招供。
A priest visited her to confess her every day.
一位神父天天前来听她忏悔。
He might have been able to confess to SiMonetta.
他也许能向西蒙内塔忏悔。
Most people confess to have a bad memory.
大多数人都承认记性差。
