confessional

英 [kənˈfeʃənl]

美 [kənˈfeʃənl]

n.  (教堂内的)告解室，告解亭，忏悔室

复数：confessionals　

Collins.1 / BNC.21098 / COCA.13728

牛津词典

noun

• （教堂内的）告解室，告解亭，忏悔室
  a private place in a church where a priest listens to people making confessions

柯林斯词典

• (尤指天主教教堂的)告解室
  Aconfessionalis the small room in a church where Christians, especially Roman Catholics, go to confess their sins.
• ADJ-GRADED 忏悔的;自白的
  Aconfessionalspeech or writing contains confessions.
  1. The convictions rest solely on disputed witness and confessional statements...
     仅仅根据有争议的目击者证言和供词就定了罪。
  2. Their first album was painfully frank to the point of being confessional.
     他们的第一张专辑是那么的坦率，近乎自白。
• N-COUNT 忏悔;自白;检讨会；自我批评会
  Aconfessionalis a statement or meeting in which people confess things.
  1. In regular group confessionals, the worst performers have to explain themselves to their peers.
     在定期举行的集体检讨会上，表现最差的人必须向同事作出解释。

英英释义

noun

• a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions

双语例句

• Don Corleone listened like a priest in the confessional, gazing away into the distance, impassive, remote.
  堂-科利昂象个告解室里的祖父一样听着，向远处凝视着，没有表情，冷漠。
• You will find attached both our Confessional Statement and our Theological Vision for Ministry& a vision rooted in the Scriptures and centered on the gospel.
  这里附有我们的认信声明和事工的神学异象（这异象扎根于圣经并以福音为中心）。
• In regular group confessionals, the worst performers have to explain themselves to their peers.
  在定期举行的集体检讨会上，表现最差的人必须向同事作出解释。
• Because I drove the night shift, my cab became a moving confessional.
  由于我上夜班，我的出租车就成为一辆流动的忏悔室。
• Forty years ago, almost three quarters of existing schools were "confessional", that is, associated with one Christian sect or another.
  四十年前，几乎四分之三现有的学校分别为“忏悔堂”，即是与一个基督教教派或另一个。
• Unlike Lowell's, his poems are neither autobiographical nor confessional.
  和洛厄尔不同，他的诗既不是自传性质的，也不是忏悔的。
• Most modern misery literature, however, is the purest voyeurism, an opportunity to pry into the degradation of others through secondhand confessional of the most graphic and prurient sort.
  然而，大多数的“悲剧文学”都是通过最生动、最淫秽的间接自述来趁机窥伺他人的落魄，都纯粹属于偷窥他人隐私之作。
• On the surface, Ms. Jamison's confessional writings look like exhibitionism& including the title essay, which records her time as a medical actor enacting a script of symptoms for the benefit of medical students.
  表面上看，贾米森的自传体作品有点暴露癖&包括书中的同名散文，说的是她为医学院的学生们充当医学演员，按照脚本表演各种疾病症状。
• Their first album was painfully frank to the point of being confessional.
  他们的第一张专辑是那么的坦率，近乎自白。
• The Metaphorical Interpretation of R. Lowell's Two Confessional Poems
  罗威尔·洛厄尔两首自白诗的隐喻解读