查询词典 confess

I confess that I had made mistake like that due to lack of experience in my work.

我承认我在工作中因缺乏经验而犯过这样那样的错误。

With the rapid growth of an urban middle class, mooncakes have become a form of currency, not so much to be eaten (some Chinese confess to disliking them) as to be given with careful thought as to the cost of their ingredients and the lavishness of their packaging.

随着城市中产阶级的快速增长，月饼更多的含义已不是它们能吃（一些中国人承认并不喜欢吃月饼），而是转换成了一种货币符号——以在月饼的配料和奢侈的包装上花费的多少来决定月饼价值的高低。

With the rapid growth of an urban middle class, mooncakes have become a form of currency, not so much to be eaten (some Chinese confess to [S5] disliking them) as to be given with careful thought as to the cost of their ingredients [S6] and the lavishness [S7] of their packaging.

随着城市中产阶级的迅速增长，月饼已经成为了财富的一种象征，不仅仅是为了品尝(一些中国人坦言他们不喜欢月饼)，因为精心的包装能给显示他们的用心并且能够留给别人很好的印象。

I have to confess that I also find it hard to comprehend how they could have agreed to let me go without having someone in mind who they could replace me with.

我必须坦承我也感到难以理解，他们怎能在心目中没有可取代我的人选之情？

In your dress, I confess, you、re the source of light.

我承认，你的优雅，你是光亮的来源

"Come, my dear Albert," said Debray, confess that your cook is behindhand, that the oysters have not arrived from Ostend or Marennes, and that, like Madame de Maintenon, you are going to replace the dish by a story.

"那是我在基督世界的首都与之有业务往来的银行，"伯爵泰然自若地回答说。

Fifty years ago, when the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union was raising tensions in the world and McCarthyism was threatening our liberties at home, President Dwight Eisenhower belatedly said,"Any who act as if freedom's defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America."

五十年前，我们跟苏联的核军备竞赛使整个世界的紧张加剧；而在国内，麦卡锡主义也正在威胁着我们的自由。

I would have to face the question: what are we really, the university of von Humboldt or of Cardinal Newman? Don't we either have to be one or the other, or else confess that ultimately we are a dysfunctional system, divided into two endlessly warring parties?( )If I had to hazard a formulation of the genius of this place, I guess I would suggest that it is a capacious openness to scandalous contradictions. Perhaps it is our genius not to conceal contradictions, nor to commit mealy compromises, nor to sacrifice one pole for the other-but to embrace them both.

从以上的评论中我们很容易看出芝加哥大学的风格和特点显然，其它美国一流大学也都有各自不同的风格在总结芝加哥大学的本科教育和学术研究的基础上，我们很容易发现，现代的美国一流大学即不是单纯的Newman型，也不是完全的Humbold型大学；而是由这两个不同的模型构成的一对矛盾体正是由于两种不同的模型，才能够形成一种不断发展的动力对于这个矛盾，Levine校长这样回答

I confess such endless days and nights would be a punishment far greater than you could ever mete out.

我承认那样的漫漫白日和长夜才是超乎你们所能给予的巨大的惩罚。

"I thought, I must confess, that these tales, were inventions of the Middle Ages."

我想，我必须尼古丁含量低的香烟。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷