self-confessed

音標發(fā)音

James is a self-confessed Linux fanatic and has spent many happy hours preaching on the subject to anyone within earshot.
James 自己公開承認是一個Linux 迷，他一有機會就向其他的人來講述相關的話題，并以此度過了很多美好的時光。
Val Curtis, director of the Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a self-confessed toilet reader.
瓦爾·柯蒂斯，倫敦衛(wèi)生與熱帶醫(yī)學院衛(wèi)生中心的主任，是一位公開承認自己有“廁讀”習慣的人。
Self-confessed interiors geek Will Taylor could only afford a basic Ikea dining table. But with a bit of ingenuity, he transformed it into something far more special.
自認為是家居發(fā)燒友的Will Taylor 本來只能買得起一張宜家簡易餐桌，但是他用了一點點獨創(chuàng)性，把它變成了一個較之原來特殊很多的東西。

One self-confessed kidnapper now runs the security services in one of Yemen's 17 provinces.
ECONOMIST: Yemen
The Self-Confessed Independents probably present a slightly more shootable duck than most of the alternatives.
ECONOMIST: The duck-hunting season begins
Into this sadness, in the late 1960s, came Janice Perlman, a young American sociologist and self-confessed lover of favelas.
ECONOMIST: To get out you need education, hard work and luck

admitting to having a characteristic that is considered to be bad or not acceptable

If you describe someone as a self-confessed murderer or a self-confessed romantic, for example, you mean that they admit openly that they are a murderer or a romantic.