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。
Now, I must confess that I'm at my wit's end.
现在我必须承认我已毫无办法。
※A fault confessed is half redressed. 承认错误,等于改正一半。 ※Open confession is good for the soul. 坦白交代,身心愉快。 ※It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. 笨羊才向狼忏悔。