1·Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
现在当向耶和华你们列祖的神认罪，遵行他的旨意，离绝这些国的民和外邦的女子。
2·I have a confession to make.
我要作个坦白。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·The motive for confession is penitential or therapeutic—by speaking openly about personal guilt and suffering, the poet hopes to make them easier to bear.
忏悔的动机是赎罪或治疗：诗人希望通过公开谈论个人的罪行和痛苦，让自己更容易接受它们。
4·I've a confession to make—I lied about my age.
我有错要承认—我谎报了年龄。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·Late in the day, he found Colom secluded in a room with Guatemala's Archbishop, murmuring words that Izurieta could not make out, as if he were in confession.
当天稍晚，他发现科罗姆与危地马拉大主教蛰居一室，咕哝着些伊苏·列塔不知所以的话，好像他是在告解。
6·I have a confession to make: sometimes I complain about something even if I don't really want to change it.
我要忏悔：有时候我总是抱怨，然而我并没有真的打算改变自己。
7·Wherefore not; since all the powers of nature call so earnestly for the confession of sin, that these black weeds have sprung up out of a buried heart, to make manifest an unspoken crime?
既然一切自然力量都这么诚挚地要求仟侮罪过，连这些黑色杂草都从死者的心中生长出来，宣布了一桩没有说出口的罪行，为什么办不到呢？
8·Before I discuss this software masterpiece, I have a confession to make.
讨论这个软件杰作之前，我首先作一些说明。
9·Juries demand details from the suspect that make the confession appear to be reliable - that's where these cases go south.
陪审员需要嫌疑人陈述的细节来让证词显得比较可信——也就是从这里案件开始南辕北辙。
10·"Can I make a terrible confession even though I hardly know you?"
“虽然我不怎么认识你，但你能听我告解吗？”