The recent confession of a 29-year-old mother to suffocating her two toddlers is not as rare as many might think.

最近，一位29岁的母亲供认其闷死了自己的两个孩子，而此类事件并不像人们想象的那般罕见。

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Such a complicated spiritual structure makes Wild Grass both a change from a fighter and the begging and confession of a defeated one.

如此复杂的精神架构遂使《野草》既显示为一个战士的挑战，也显示为一个失败者的求乞与忏悔。

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His confession involved a number of other politicians in the affair.

他的自白供出其他一些政治人物也涉及此事。

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But Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam says the judge has called Kasab's confession only a partial admission of guilt, and says the suspect has not admitted to all 86 charges against him.

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A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal.

他的忏悔被绝望的虔诚悸动着,但这也不能为他那恶魔的狡诈赎罪，他是变态。

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With the rise of Christianity, western religion came to be defined to a large degree by the confession of, or the intellectual assent to, certain doctrinal points of belief.

随着基督教的兴起，西方宗教被定义成,很大程度上指被解释为，或被知识分子一致认可为，对特定教义的信仰。

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He travels to the place itself where, receiving the confession of a local collaborator, he gets as near to the truth as he ever will.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Turkle suggests that this kind of confession is a way of deflecting direct conflict: it can be easier to tell your woes and secrets to a stranger (or a lot of strangers) than to heal your wounds with people who are actually in your life.

NEWYORKER: The Disconnect

It's that Iran's entrenched interests read Obama's meant-to-be-conciliatory remarks as a confession of weakness, a signal that the United States is at the end of its strategic rope.

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