admit是什么意思？10、admit 和 confess

admit 动词。意思是“允许进入、容纳得下、承认”。表示承认时，是一个常用词，可以接从句、名词或代词、动名词、复合结构。

The ticket will admit three to the concert. 这张票允许三个人进去听音乐会。

The theatre only admits 1000 persons. 这个剧院只能容下一千人。

This man admits that his motive is profits. 那人承认他的目的就的赢利。

I admit my fault. 我承认我的错误。

She admits having seen us. 她承认看见过我们。

They admited him to be mad. 他们承认他有精神病。

confess 动词。意思是“承认、认罪、忏悔”。可以接从句、名词、动名词、复合结构、 介词to引起的短语。也可以用过去分词作定语。

I confess you are right on one point. 我承认你在某一点上是对的。

I must confess my error. 我必须认错。

The minister confessed himself to be a thief. 这个牧师承认自己是个小偷。

He confessed taking part in a plot to free the prisoner.

他承认参加了解放囚犯的秘密计划。

I confess to having heard about it. 我承认听说过。

A fault confessed is falf redressed. 错误的承认就是一半的改正。

He confessed to the priest before he died. 他死前向神父作了忏悔。