fess up

1. LL: To fess up is to confess or admit something.
   原来，fessup就是承认，坦白的意思。好吧！
2. Or fess up and find out immediately what repercussions are headed your way for the screw-up so youre not worried about the unknowns.
   或者坦白并立即寻找搞砸会有什么后果，这样就不用为未知担心。
3. Fess up, fellows: The masters of the universe have turned out to be masters of disaster.
   大伙儿说实话吧，男人自以为是宇宙的主宰，结果却成了灾难的源头。
4. OK, fess up: how many of you think it's sexy when your partner does housework?
   说说看：你们中会有多少人在看见你的伴侣做家务时觉得他们性感？
5. Won't fess up to being even vaguely liberal ( Jonathan Alter)
   不会老实地承认即使是暧昧的公平（乔纳森奥尔特）
6. Referring to the hundreds of thousands of air miles travelled by climate scientists going to and from professional meetings, however, he adds that we all have to 'fess up to the fact that we're deeply hypocritical and contradictory beings.
   然而他补充称：我们都不得不承认，我们是一群严重伪善且矛盾的人。他指的是气候学家参加各种专业会议而飞行的数十万航空里程。
7. Lenders must fess up to property exposures using realistic valuations, and use any loss to inform a more credible recapitalisation.
   各银行必须使用现实的估值老实交代各自的房贷敞口，并利用任何亏损为更加可信的资产重组提供依据。
8. Sometimes I have an irresistible urge to fess up about my feelings.
   （有些时候，我感到一种不可抗拒的冲动想表明我的情感。）

verb

1. admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
   1. the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting

   Synonym:    make a clean breast ofown up