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admit
- IPA[ədˈmɪt]
英式
- confess to be true or to be the case;confess to (a crime or fault, or one's responsibility for it)
verb: admit, 3rd person present: admits, gerund or present participle: admitting, past tense: admitted, past participle: admitted
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. confess to be true or to be the case the Home Office finally admitted that several prisoners had been injured ‘I am feeling pretty tired,’ Jane admitted 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ confess to (a crime or fault, or one's responsibility for it) he was sentenced to prison after admitting 47 charges of burglary the paramilitaries admitted to the illegal possession of arms 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ acknowledge (a failure or fault) after searching for an hour, she finally had to admit defeat
- 2. allow (someone) to enter a place old-age pensioners are admitted free to the museum 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ receive (a patient) into a hospital for treatment she was admitted to hospital suffering from a chest infection
- ▪ allow (a person, country, etc.) to join an organization Canada was admitted to the League of Nations
- ▪ allow (someone) to share in a privilege he was admitted to the freedom of the city in 1583
- 3. accept as valid the courts can refuse to admit police evidence which has been illegally obtained
- 4. allow the possibility of the need to inform him was too urgent to admit of further delay