confessional的意思|confessional的解释-里氏词典

confessional [kən'fɛʃənl.]

a. 自白的, 忏悔的

n. 告解室

[法] 自白的, 供认的, 忏悔的

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。
For some, falling in love is like walking into a soundproof confessional booth, a place where you can tell all.
在有些人看来，坠入爱河就像进入了一个隔音的忏悔室，在那儿你可以倾谈一切。
A rectangular volume on one side of the nave contains the lateral extension of the altar, the sacristy, registry, and confessional rooms.
中央广场一侧的长方体的体量包括了祭坛的一部分、器安置所、记房以及忏悔室。

confessional

[ noun ]
a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
<noun.artifact>

Confessional \Con*fes"sion*al\, n. [F. confessional.]
The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to
hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a
seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the
penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear
without being seen by him or heard by others.

Confessional \Con*fes"sion*al\, a.
Pertaining to a confession of faith.

{Confessional equality}, equality before the law of persons
confessing different creeds.

Because women are more likely to develop communal, confessional relationships, they say, there is a new flavor to collegial friendships.
Sometimes Byrne provides an acoustic set of confessional intensity; sometimes he fills the stage with Latin musicians. But with a new album, the eponymous 'David Byrne' to promote, expect a bit of both.
De Benedetti's inquisitors are holding him in a prison that was once a convent - and both the investigating magistrate and the public attorney who want to lead him to the confessional for his putative sins are women.
Newson is more like a radical journalist; he means to expose issues. MSM features spoken passages culled from 50 interviews about cottaging. These are selected and shaped in a thoroughly Newson style: a mix of expose, confessional and commentary.
O'Connor's themes have stayed pretty much the same, if expressed in more confessional terms, but her music has contracted, muted.
Today he brushes aside questions about whether he ever tried drugs, refusing to "get into that confessional stuff."
They vowed to remain locked in a confessional until their demands were met.
Since people's fears about volatility and dishonesty were reinforced by the 1987 crash and the insider-trading scandals, she suggests that a confessional approach to advertising could help restore credibility.
He is a prose Whitman of the 20th century; and indeed acknowledges the connection, claiming America's great confessional poet as his 'ancestor'. Although his sexually descriptive books are not Miller's best, they performed several important functions.
They do so not in the darkness and secrecy of the confessional, but out loud at a social gathering or at a party.
Like the priest in the confessional, they've heard it all before.
He said he was sorry, but can anyone believe or forgive him until he makes a large public apology (preferably on "Nightline," the national confessional)?

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