核心畫面
Something you have been holding inside — a wrong thing you did, or a small fact you are shy about — finally comes out of your mouth to another person. The effort was in keeping it hidden; confess is the moment you stop hiding it.
可以想成：有件事你一直壓在心裡沒說——做過的錯事，或是一個不好意思承認的小事實——confess 就是你終於開口、把…更多收起
可以想成：有件事你一直壓在心裡沒說——做過的錯事，或是一個不好意思承認的小事實——confess 就是你終於開口、把它交給別人知道的那一刻。重點不在「講話」，而在「原本藏著，現在不藏了」。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
confessverb/kənˈfɛs/
- 1
To admit to the truth, particularly in the context of sins or crimes committed.
- I confess to spray-painting all over that mural!
- I confess that I am a sinner.
- 2
To acknowledge faith in; to profess belief in.
- Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess, also, before my Father which is in heaven.
- For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
- 3
lifestylereligionTo unburden (oneself) of sins to God or a priest, in order to receive absolution.
- If we confesse our sinnes, hee is faithfull, & iust to forgiue vs our sinnes, and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse.
- Our beautiful votary took an opportunity of confessing herself to this celebrated father.
- 4
lifestylereligionTo hear or receive such a confession of sins from.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles He […] heard mass, and the prince, his son, with him, and the most part of his company were confessed.
- A jealous man confesses his wife under a priest's habit, who tells him that she is visited every night by a friar; […]
- 5
To disclose or reveal.
- Tall thriving trees confess;d the fruitful mould.
- 6
To profess one's love.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。