confess: [14] Confess comes from Latin confitērī ‘a(chǎn)cknowledge’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and fatērī ‘a(chǎn)dmit’ (a relative of English fable, fame, and fate). Its past participle was confessus, and this was taken as the basis of a new Vulgar Latin verb *confessāre, which passed into English via Old French confesser. => fable, fame, fate
confess (v.)
late 14c., from Old French confesser (transitive and intransitive), from Vulgar Latin *confessare, from Latin confess-, past participle stem of confiteri "to acknowledge," from com- "together" (see com-) + fateri "to admit," akin to fari "speak," from PIE root *bha- (2) "to speak, tell, say" (see fame (n.)).
Its original religious sense was of one who avows his religion in spite of persecution or danger but does not suffer martyrdom. Old French confesser thus had a figurative sense of "to harm, hurt, make suffer." Related: Confessed; confessing. An Old English word for it was andettan.
雙語例句
1. You just go to the church and confess your sins.
你干脆去教堂懺悔自己的罪過吧。
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2. Let us now confess our sins to Almighty God.
現(xiàn)在讓我們向上帝懺悔我們的罪惡。
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3. I must confess I'm not a great enthusiast for long political programmes.
我必須承認自己對時間很長的政治節(jié)目不是很熱衷。
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4. Right off I want to confess that I was wrong.
我立刻就想承認我錯了。
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5. Most rape victims confess a feeling of helplessness.