confess是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 供认， 承认， 坦白， 忏悔，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I remember a certain famous occasion when you forced me to confess that you had been drinking.'
-- I confess that we were so unpopular with the outrageous mob, that I only got away from England at the risk of being ducked to death, and that Cly was so ferreted up and down, that he never would have got away at all but for that sham.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will never confess that I could not see the stuff.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Konstantin Levin felt that there was no course open to him but to submit, or to confess to a lack of zeal for the public good.
-- Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it was so strong that now this passion was even doing battle with his love.
-- I'm ambitious; that's my weakness, and I confess to it."
-- "Perhaps you wouldn't confess to it if you hadn't been successful," said Vronsky.
-- I won't conceal from you that in beginning this I was in uncertainty, I was in misery; I will confess that I was pursued by a desire to revenge myself on you and on her.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The brigadier-general was free to mentally confess that, of all the eccentric persons he had ever met, none was comparable to this product of the exact sciences.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions, but grudgingly he stopped at the door of a bedroom in which a probationer nurse was scrubbing the floor.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'll go in, fall on my knees, and confess everything 芒聙娄' he thought, as he reached the fourth floor.
-- 'Allow me to explain that I have been living with her for nearly three years and at first 芒聙娄 at first 芒聙娄 for why should I not confess it, at the very beginning I promised to marry her daughter, it was a verbal promise, freely given 芒聙娄 she was a girl 芒聙娄 indeed, I liked her, though I was not in love with her 芒聙娄 a youthful affair in fact 芒聙娄 that is, I mean to say, that my landlady gave me credit freely in those days, and I led a life of 芒聙娄 I was very heedless 芒聙娄' 'Nobody asks you for these personal details, sir, we've no time to waste,' Ilya Petrovitch interposed roughly and with a note of triumph; but Raskolnikov stopped him hotly, though he suddenly found it exceedingly difficult to speak.
-- 'Take me,' he says, 'to such-and-such a police officer; I'll confess everything.'
-- And I confess I am delighted 芒聙娄' 'At what?'
-- 'But confess now, my dear fellow, you're awfully anxious to know what I am reading about?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet, I havenothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which mightbe of less moment still) that no one can ever believe this Narrative,in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
-- Yet, I hadnothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which mightbe of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative,in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.
-- I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day,having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the oneto which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (Icannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in acoach.
-- But I confess I entertained anotherimpression.'
-- He said it wasno derogation from a man's dignity to confess that I was a devilishgood fellow.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I do not know what I could imagine, but I confess that I have seldom seen a face or figure more pleasing to me than hers.
-- 'You, sir, may say any thing,' cried Mr. Elton, 'but I must confess that I regard it as a most happy thought, the plac-ing of Miss Smith out of doors; and the tree is touched with such inimitable spirit!Any other situation would have been much less in character.
-- 'Did she know? had she heard any thing about her, since their being at Randalls? he felt much anxiety he must confess that the nature of her complaint alarmed him considerably.'
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