| 正面 | 3982.confess 英 [kən'fes]美 [kən'fɛs]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： confess“肯反思”-----忏悔vt. 承认；坦白；忏悔；供认vi. 承认；坦白；忏悔；供认 例句： 1. You just go to the church and confess your sins.你干脆去教堂忏悔自己的罪过吧。 confess 坦承con-, 强调。-fess, 说，交谈，词源同phone, profess. confessconfess: [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, fateconfess (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." |