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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Quite so," said the captain, "and yet, your Lordship, I must confess that Miss Grant is more in her place on the poop than reefing a topsail.
-- "Enchanted with it, my brave Major; still I must confess I should not say no to a dish of llama."
-- "We confess it willingly," replied Paganel.
-- As long as we are on open sea, a careful lookout is enough; my sailors and I are watching on the poop; but when we get near the coast, I confess I shall be uneasy if Halley does not come to his senses."
-- But if Ayrton knew nothing, why did he not confess his ignorance?
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.'
-- Chapter 3 The Problem confess at these words a shudder passed through me.
-- 'No, I confess that I see no connection.'
-- The de-tection of types is one of the most elementary branches of knowledge to the special expert in crime, though I confess that once when I was very young I confused the Leeds Mer-cury with the Western Morning News.
-- 'I confess that I share Dr. Mortimer's belief that it will not be long before the missing boot is found.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, I didn't like it at all, and was ill after seeing it; but I confess I stared as though my eyes were fixed to the sight.
-- 'Just now, I confess,' began the prince, with more ani-mation, 'when you asked me for a subject for a picture, I confess I had serious thoughts of giving you one.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'For my own part,' she rejoined, 'I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I was to have another trial for it still; and Providence, as in such cases generally it does, resolved to leave me entirely without excuse; for if I would not take this for a deliverance, the next was to be such a one as the worst and most hardened wretch among us would confess both the danger and the mercy of.
-- I confess I had not entertained any notion of my am-munition being destroyed at one blast - I mean my powder being blown up by lightning; and this made the thoughts of it so surprising to me, when it lightened and thundered, as I observed just now.
-- At last it occurred to my thoughts that I shook a bag of chickens' meat out in that place; and then the wonder began to cease; and I must confess my religious thankfulness to God's providence began to abate, too, upon the discovering that all this was nothing but what was common; though I ought to have been as thankful for so strange and unforeseen a providence as if it had been miraculous; for it was really the work of Providence to me, that should order or appoint that ten or twelve grains of corn should remain unspoiled, when the rats had destroyed all the rest, as if it had been dropped from heaven; as also, that I should throw it out in that par-ticular place, where, it being in the shade of a high rock, it sprang up immediately; whereas, if I had thrown it any-where else at that time, it had been burnt up and destroyed.
-- I confess this side of the country was much pleasanter than mine; but yet I had not the least inclination to remove, for as I was fixed in my habitation it became natural to me, and I seemed all the while I was here to be as it were upon a journey, and from home.
-- I believe the reader of this will not think it strange if I confess that these anxieties, these constant dangers I lived in, and the concern that was now upon me, put an end to all invention, and to all the contrivances that I had laid for my future accommodations and conveniences.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If it will be any satisfaction to you, however, to be told, that I believe his character to be in other respects irreproachable, I am ready to confess it.
-- He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engagement with Marianne, and he feels himself obliged, from his dependent situation, to give into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while.
-- "Certainly," answered Elinor, without knowing what she said; but after a moment's reflection, she added, with revived security of Edward's honour and love, and her companion's falsehood "Engaged to Mr. Edward Ferrars! I confess myself so totally surprised at what you tell me, that really I beg your pardon; but surely there must be some mistake of person or name.
-- And how you will explain away any part of your guilt in that dreadful business, I confess is beyond my comprehension."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had no definite plans regarding her, but he was determined to make her confess an affection for him.
-- Carrie, now that she had yielded sufficiently to Hurstwood to confess her affection, no longer troubled about her attitude towards him.
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