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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I confess I had a poor opinion of you at first, but I have been so joyfully surprised about you just now; it's a good lesson for me.
-- 'I did not confess anything to you,' said the prince, blush-ing.
-- I exhibited the greatest inter-est and sympathy, and I remember that poor Daria quite lost her head, and that I began assuring her, before every-one, that I would guarantee her forgiveness on the part of her mistress, if she would confess her guilt.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will confess that then, and indeed always, I distrusted and dreaded Moreau; but Montgomery was a man I felt I understood.
-- 'I must confess that you are the most dictatorial guest I ever entertained.
-- I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- THE MOON AND SIXPENCEChapter II confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.
-- I confess that time has now accustomed me to incidents of this character among my acquaintance.
-- "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it.
-- Dirk Stroeve flattered himself on his skill in cooking Italian dishes, and I confess that his spaghetti were very much better than his pictures.
-- He recognises in himself an artistic satisfaction in the contemplation of evil which a little startles him; but sincerity forces him to confess that the disapproval he feels for certain actions is not nearly so strong as his curiosity in their reasons.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While they were on the way back, Mr Swiveller, upon whom his present functions sat very irksomely, took an opportunity of whispering in his ear that if he would confess his guilt, even by so much as a nod, and promise not to do so any more, he would connive at his kicking Sampson Brass on the shins and escaping up a court; but Kit indignantly rejecting this proposal, Mr Richard had nothing for it, but to hold him tight until they reached Bevis Marks, and ushered him into the presence of the charming Sarah, who immediately took the precaution of locking the door.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had just passed her sixteenth year when the ladies were visited by their nephew, a rich student, and Katiousha, without daring to confess it to him, or even to herself, fell in love with him.
-- Now that he found himself the owner of vast estates, he was confronted by two alternatives: either to waive his ownership in favor of the peasants, as he did ten years ago with the two hundred acres, or, by tacit acquiescence, confess that all his former ideas were erroneous and false.
-- He felt that he was in love, but not as formerly, when this love was to him a mystery, and he had not the courage to confess it to himself; when he was convinced that one can love only once.
-- "There is nothing worse than to confess being in low spirits," said Missy.
-- "I never confess it to myself, and that is why I am always cheerful.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilisation and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
-- I will confess I was horribly frightened.
-- At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all.
-- 'Confess that was what you turned into!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cheer followed that was a matter of course; but it rang out so full and hearty that I confess I could hardly believe these same men were plotting for our blood.
-- I will confess that I was far too much taken up with what was going on to be of the slightest use as sentry; indeed, I had already deserted my eastern loophole and crept up behind the captain, who had now seated himself on the threshold, with his elbows on his knees, his head in his hands, and his eyes fixed on the water as it bubbled out of the old iron kettle in the sand.
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