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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Elegant, agreeable manners, I was prepared for,' said he; 'but I confess that, considering every thing, I had not ex-pected more than a very tolerably well-looking woman of a certain age; I did not know that I was to find a pretty young woman in Mrs.
-- I must confess it is a recommendation to me.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states pos-sessed attractions for me.
-- I confess that I felt a few sensations of terror.
-- You have travelled; you have spent several years of your 230 Frankensteinlife at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, al-though they opposed themselves to your inclinations.
-- I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion.
-- My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If themoney it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficientlytroubled to confess it before Mass the following morning.
-- Scarlett knew that Rhett was not being patriotic and, though she would have died rather than confess it, she didnot care.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Biddy was Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's granddaughter; I confess myself quite unequal to the working out of the problem, what relation she was to Mr. Wopsle.
-- I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
-- Let me confess exactly with what feelings I looked forward to Joe's coming.
-- To confess the truth, I very heartily wished, and not for the first time, that I had had some other guardian of minor abilities.
-- He had no occasion to say after that that he had conceived an aversion for my patron, neither had I occasion to confess my own.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.
-- I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.
-- hen I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, Wand must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect.
-- His majesty gave orders, upon pain of death, that every soldier in his march should observe the strictest decency with re-gard to my person; which however could not prevent some of the younger officers from turning up their eyes as they passed under me: and, to confess the truth, my breeches were at that time in so ill a condition, that they afforded some opportunities for laughter and admiration.
-- Their geese and turkeys I usually ate at a mouthful, and I confess they far exceed ours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But you must confess that you were born in the lap of luxury, yourself.
-- I have seen a little, here and there, up and down; I have found it all to be very worthless, as everybody has, and as some confess they have, and some do not; and I am going in for your respected father's opinions really because I have no choice of opinions, and may as well back them as anything else.'
-- 'Candidly to confess everything that has occurred to me,' said James Harthouse, again gliding with the same appearance of effort into his more airy manner; 'I will confide to you my doubt whether he has had many advantages.
-- 'It used to be considered,' said Mrs. Sparsit, 'that Miss Gradgrind was wanting in animation, but I confess she appears to me considerably and strikingly improved in that respect.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must confess that his artful grimaces, put on to conceal his happiness, made him look like a new Mephistopheles.
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