Admit

(verb.) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; 'He admitted his errors'; 'She acknowledged that she might have forgotten'.

(verb.) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; 'admit someone to the profession'; 'She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar'.

(verb.) allow to enter; grant entry to; 'We cannot admit non-members into our club building'; 'This pipe admits air'.

(verb.) serve as a means of entrance; 'This ticket will admit one adult to the show'.

(verb.) give access or entrance to; 'The French doors admit onto the yard'.

(verb.) afford possibility; 'This problem admits of no solution'; 'This short story allows of several different interpretations'.

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• That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I admit that I do press it, and I must beg you to forgive me if I do so, very earnestly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But the gypsies have many laws they do not admit to having. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I cannot but in some sense admit the force of this reasoning, which I yet hope to traverse by the following considerations. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The first wave is past, and the argument is compelled to admit that men and women have common duties and pursuits. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Simple perceptions or impressions and ideas are such as admit of no distinction nor separation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Don't ever admit that. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• This thrown open, admitted him to his own private apartment of three rooms: his bed-chamber and two others. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• They were admitted by a confederate inside the house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The world of sense is still depreciated and identified with opinion, though admitted to be a shadow of the true. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The path just admitted three. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I was not expected, for she left me locked in the yard, while she went to ask if I were to be admitted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Now, things are wholly changed, and almost every naturalist admits the great principle of evolution. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Gibbon, because of his anti-Christian animus, is hostile to Constantine; but he admits that he was temperate and chaste. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He addresses this to the astounded Tony, who admits the soft impeachment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My page who admits patients is a new boy and by no means quick. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He admits it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He admits that he was alone on the scene of the murder within a few minutes of its commission. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr. Weevle admits that he has been wrong and begs Mr. William Guppy to think no more about it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find you an employer without admitting a third person into his plot. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• One of Boyle's critics, a professor at Louvain, while admitting that air had weight and elasticity, denie d that these were sufficient to account for the results ascribed to them. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• A new company was proposed, and prevented only by admitting a number of new partners. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Shirley seemed about to reply, but here the schoolroom door unclosed, admitting Mr. Sympson. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I should have thought your self respect and your Porter pride would have shrunk from admitting, even to yourself, that you were a bought woman. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Even admitting that the size and weight of his low-tension conductors necessitated putting them underground, this argues nothing against the propriety and sanity of his methods. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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