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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I confess that fatigue began to tell severely upon me; but my uncle was as firm and as hard as he had been on the first day.
-- My uncle bore them like a man who has been in the wrong--that is, with concentrated and suppressed anger; Hans, with all the resignation of his pacific character; and I--I confess that I did nothing but complain, and despair.
-- I honestly confess that I was abjectly afraid.
-- Nevertheless, I am compelled to confess that until now we have been most remarkably fortunate, and that this voyage is being accomplished in most favorable conditions of temperature; but it appears evident, in fact, certain, that we shall sooner or later arrive at one of those regions where the central heat will reach its utmost limits, and will go far beyond all the possible gradations of thermometers.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it is, I cannot but confess it, it is too often hem acceptable.
-- 'Men are so often mistaken on those points,' returned Mrs Gowan, shaking her head, 'that I candidly confess to you I feel anything but sure of it, even now; though it is something to have Henry corroborated with so much gravity and emphasis.
-- The smiling Mr Blandois, opening his cloak to get his hand to a breast-pocket, paused to say, with a laugh in his glittering eyes, which it occurred to Mr Flintwinch were too near together:'You are so like a friend of mine!Not so identically the same as I supposed when I really did for the moment take you to be the same in the dusk for which I ought to apologise; permit me to do so; a readiness to confess my errors is, I hope, a part of the frankness of my character still, however, uncommonly like.'
-- They shall all confess your merit, Blandois.
-- I confess I don't.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I lost her when I was a little older than you are, and for years had to struggle on alone, for I was too proud to confess my weakness to anyone else.
-- 'Bosun's mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn't confess his sins double quick, ' said the British captain.
-- She did not approve of it, but she meant to be kind, for the wellbehaved little girl pleased her very much, and Aunt March had a soft place in her old heart for her nephew's children, though she didn't think it proper to confess it.
-- It irritated her, but she was ashamed to confess it, and now and then she tried to console herself by buy-ing something pretty, so that Sallie needn't think she had to economize.
-- Laurie turned the matter over in his mind so often that he soon brought himself to confess that he had been selfish and lazy, but then when a man has a great sorrow, he should be indulged in all sorts of vagaries till he has lived it down.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as for going as cook, though I confess there is considerable glory in that, a cook being a sort of officer on ship-board yet, somehow, I never fancied broiling fowls; though once broiled, judiciously buttered, and judgmatically salted and peppered, there is no one who will speak more respectfully, not to say reverentially, of a broiled fowl than I will.
-- Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night.
-- He will not confess himself suspected; but that itself is strong suspicion.
-- The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do commercial homage to the whale-ship, that cleared the way for the missionary and the merchant, and in many cases carried the primitive missionaries to their first destinations.
-- Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not respectable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hope I may have good cause to do so,' replied Mr. Losberne; 'though I confess I don't think I shall.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Darcy is impatient to see his sister; and, to confess the truth, WE are scarcely less eager to meet her again.
-- But as no such delicacy restrained her mother, an hour seldom passed in which she did not talk of Bingley, express her im-patience for his arrival, or even require Jane to confess that if he did not come back she would think herself very ill used.
-- 'My dearest Lizzy will, I am sure, be incapable of tri-umphing in her better judgement, at my expense, when I confess myself to have been entirely deceived in Miss Bing-ley's regard for me.
-- But I confess they would have no charms for ME I should infi-nitely prefer a book.'
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