confess

vt. 承认；坦白；忏悔；供认

vi. 承认；坦白；忏悔；供认

中文词源

confess 坦承

con-, 强调。-fess, 说，交谈，词源同phone, profess.

confess: confess: [14] Confess comes from Latin confitērī ‘acknowledge’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and fatērī ‘admit’ (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.

confess“肯反思”-----忏悔

3. I must confess I'm not a great enthusiast for long political programmes.: 我必须承认自己对时间很长的政治节目不是很热衷。

5. Most rape victims confess a feeling of helplessness.: 大部分强奸案受害者都承认有一种无助的感觉。