1. admit: to say that you have done
something wrong or illegal, especially when someone asks or persuades you to do
this 承認(rèn)做錯事
例：
Admit it! You lied to me! （快招！你剛剛沒說實話！）
admit (that)
Rachel admitted that she had made a mistake.
（瑞秋承認(rèn)她確實犯了錯。）
Black finally admitted he had stolen the
money. （布萊克最終承認(rèn)自己偷了錢。）
admit (to) doing something
He admitted accepting bribes. （他承認(rèn)受賄了。）
He admits to stealing the car. （他承認(rèn)車是他偷的。）
admit
responsibility/liability/negligence (=admit
publicly that something is legally your fault)
The hospital refused to admit liability for
the deaths of the two young children. （醫(yī)院拒絕承認(rèn)是院方失誤導(dǎo)致這兩名兒童死亡。）
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2. confess: to tell the police or
someone in a position of authority that you have done something very bad,
especially after they have persuaded you to do this 向警方或當(dāng)局認(rèn)罪
例：
confess (that)
She confessed that she had killed her
husband. （她招供了，承認(rèn)自己謀殺親夫。）
confess to a crime/robbery/murder etc
He confessed to the crime shortly after his
arrest. （他被捕后不久就認(rèn)罪了。）
confess to doing something
Edwards eventually confessed to being a spy.
（愛德華最后招供了，承認(rèn)自己是間諜。）
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3. own up: to admit that you have
done something wrong, especially something that is not serious
備注："own
up" is more informal than "admit"or "confess"（"own up"比"admit"和"confess"都更口語化）
例：
Come on, own up. Who broke it? （快說！誰打破的？）
Unless the guilty person owns up, the whole
class will be punished. （除非有人主動承認(rèn)，要不全班都要受罰。）
own up to (doing) something
He was too frightened to own up to his
mistake. （他嚇壞了，不敢認(rèn)錯。）
No one owned up to breaking the window. （窗戶被打破了，沒人承認(rèn)。）
I made a few mistakes, but I owned up to
them. （我犯了錯，但我向他們認(rèn)錯了。）
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4. come clean: to finally tell the
truth or admit that you have done something wrong
備注："come
clean"常用于非正式的場合中。
例：
①The bank
eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake. （銀行最后終于承認(rèn)是他們弄錯了。）
②《老爸老媽浪漫史》S01E15中的一段對話：
Marshall:?Victoria, "Have you
ever cheated while in a relationship?" （維多利亞，你有沒有背叛過你的男朋友？）
Victoria:?Um, well, I was in a really
crappy relationship in college, and I wound up kissing this guy at a party one
night, and I felt terrible about it, so, I came clean, and we broke up. （嗯，好吧，大學(xué)時，我有一次糟糕的戀愛經(jīng)歷，在一次派對上，我親了另一個男人，我感覺這樣很不好，就跟男朋友坦白然后分手了。）
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5. fess up: to admit that you have
done something wrong, but not something that is very serious 為不嚴(yán)重的過失認(rèn)錯
備注："fess
up"常用于美式英語的非正式場合中。
例：
Come on, fess up! Who ate the last cookie? （快說，是說吃了最后一塊餅干？）
Come on, fess up - you must have been the
one who told her because no-one else knew! （得了吧，你就認(rèn)了吧，肯定是你告訴她的，因為除了你沒人知道了。）
If none of you guys fesses up, you're all
grounded for a week. （如果還沒人承認(rèn)，你們所有人接下來一周內(nèi)都不要出門玩了?。?/span>
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