confession
[kən'feʃ.ən] noun countable or uncountable
ADVANCED
■when you admit that you have done something wrong or illegal 坦白；供认，招认；承认•I've got a bit of a confession to make - I've lost that book you lent me.我要承认一件事——我把你借给我的那本书丢了。 •I can't ask for help. It feels like a confession of failure.我不能请求帮助，那感觉就像是承认失败。 •Confession is the first stage of coming to terms with what you've done.坦白是你正视自己所作所为的第一步。 •He made a full confession to the police.他向警方甚么都招了。 ■when a Christian tells God or, especially in the Roman Catholic Church, tells a priest formally and privately, what they have done wrong so that they can be forgiven 忏悔，告罪•Have you been to confession recently?你最近进行过忏悔吗？ •The priest heard his confession.神父听取了他的忏悔。 |