词义辨析： acknowledge, admit, confess, recognize, concede acknowledge 通常指公开成认某事的真实情况或自己的过错。
admit 强调因外力或良心驱使或经判断而明确成认，多含不情愿或被迫意味。 confess 语气较强，着重成认自己意识到的错误或罪行，含坦白忏悔的意味。 recognize 作 “成认 〞解时，系书面用词，主要指合法的或外交上的成认，也指公认。
concede 指在事实与证据面前勉强或不得不成认。
例句： The critic should acknowledge the complexity and inherent ambiguity of the policymaker's choices .
评论者应该成认决策者作出抉择的复杂性及难以防止的缺乏鲜明性。
例句： We must not fail to acknowledge his services to the town .

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我们必须感谢他对本市的奉献。

(compare this to a mechanical artifact of overwhelming complexity such as the space shuttle, which has 250,000 parts, only a small percentage of which are moving parts)

（可以把这些软件和类似于航天飞机这样的极为复杂的机械物品相比较，航天飞机有25万个部件，不过其中只有一小部分是能够活动的）

a pay system of unnecessary complexity

过度复杂的付款系统

※We are like wheat, here on earth to ripen. We ripen intellectually by letting in as much of the universe's complexity as we can. Morally we ripen by making our choices. And we ripen spiritually by openig our eyes to Creation's endless detail.——Richard Wolkomir, American writer我们就像小麦，生长在土地上等待着成熟。通过尽可能多吸收宇宙的复杂性使我们智力上成熟，通过各种选择使我们道德上成熟，通过睁开眼睛看到创世纪的无尽的细节使我们心灵上成熟。美国作家    沃克摹.R.

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