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承认
Confess
I confess, I do not believe in time.
我承认,我不相信时间。
You are committed to what you confess.
你要忠于你所承认的。
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
承认一个缺点比声称一个优点容易。
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
我不好意思承认我没有什么要坦白的。
I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.
我不是工作狂,但我得承认我有点躁狂。
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
有罪的良心需要承认。一件艺术品是一种忏悔。
I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.
我承认,我喜欢这台相机。当它不在我身上的时候,我就不怎么活着。
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
我承认我们无法唤醒心灵,但通常这样做是有好处的。
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
我坦白地对你说,我看猴子的时间总是很长,心里总有一种很难受的想法。
I must have confessed that the feelings, emotions and sentiments in my words are beyond my understanding.
我必须承认,我的话里的感情、情绪和情感是我无法理解的。
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
他以别人的痛苦为乐,没有人愿意承认,然而还有什么别的动机能使一个父亲变得残忍呢?
I confess that I found in the king a monk, in the court a cloister, and in the palace the discipline of a monastery.
我承认我在国王身上发现了僧侣,在宫廷里发现了修道院,在宫殿里发现了修道院的纪律。
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I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
我必须承认,有一段时间,我不喜欢做一名牧师,还有一些星期天,当我在为上帝说话的重压下瑟瑟发抖。
I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world.
我承认我是一个伟大的僚机。既然我有女朋友了,我就和她一起过夜,但之后我会帮助那些男人,让他们听起来像是世界上最不可思议的男人。
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.
由于这是我第一次发言,现在我不妨承认,我有一种习惯,总是把错误归咎于我的同事。
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.
如果你从来没有被拷打过,或者被关过,或者被口头威胁过,你会发现很难相信有人会承认他没有做过的事情。直觉认为,无辜的人不会做出虚假的供词。
I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
我承认罗伊在编辑时有点独断专行,他毁了我的很多照片,后来他就不再这么做了。他过去常常在底片上打一个洞。其中一些非常有价值。他当时不明白。
I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
我在这里承认,我暗自希望我能画一个带着一只假老虎的小男孩的漫画,在他想象的宇宙飞船里冒险穿越宇宙。