词汇精选：concede的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

v.

（勉强）承认 [T]

例句：

We had to concede the mayor's incorruptible honesty.

我们不得不承认市长的清白、诚实。

例句：

I'll concede you are not as bigoted as some

我承认你不像有些人那么顽固。

赋予，授予，容许 [T]

例句：

Are you willing to concede the right to us?

你愿意把权利让给我们吗？

例句：

They conceded us the right to cross their land.

他们容许我们在他们的土地上有过路权。

认输，承认失败 [I,T]

例句：

The government was forced to concede defeat .

政府被迫承认失败。

例句：

The candidate conceded that he had lost the election.

这位候选人承认他已经在竞选中失败。

让给，让与，让步 [I]

例句：

Decide which points you'll concede and on which you'll stand firm.

商定在哪些情况下你们可以让步，哪些情况下需站稳立。

例句：

A strike by some ten thousand bank employees has ended after the government conceded some of their demands.

政府答应了他们的一些要求后，大约有一万名银行员工参加的罢工结束了。

未能阻止（对方进球或得分） [T]

例句：

They conceded four goals to Leeds United.

他们被利兹联队攻进4个球。

例句：

Luton conceded a free kick on the edge of the penalty area.

卢顿未能在罚球区的边缘截住对方的任意球。

二、词义辨析：

acknowledge,admit,confess,recognize,concede

这些动词均含“承认”之意。acknowledge通常指公开承认某事的真实情况或自己的过错。 admit强调因外力或良心驱使或经判断而明确承认，多含不情愿或被迫意味。confess语气较强，着重承认自己意识到的错误或罪行，含坦白忏悔的意味。recognize作“承认”解时，系书面用词，主要指合法的或外交上的承认，也指公认。concede指在事实与证据面前勉强或不得不承认。

三、参考例句：

I concede that you are right.

我承认你是对的。

The government was forced to concede defeat .

政府被迫承认失败。

Injury forced her to concede defeat.

伤病迫使她认输。

You must concede that I have tried my best.

你必须承认我已经尽力了。

We had to concede the mayor's incorruptible honesty.

我们不得不承认市长的清白、诚实。

I'll concede you are not as bigoted as some.

我承认你不象有些人那么顽固。

But we must not concede too much under this head.

但我们决不能认为全部答案就在于此。

I'll concede you are not as bigoted as some

我承认你不象有些人那么顽固。

I was forced to concede that she might be right.

我不得不承认可能是她对。

Even exercise professionals concede half a point here.

甚至运动专家都不得不承认这有一定的道理。