the action of confirming something or the state of being confirmed 证实;确定;确认;批准 the greens took it as confirmation that industrial society is not sustainable. 绿党人士认为这证实了工业社会是不可能持续存在的。
(in the Christian Church) the rite at which a baptized person, especially one baptized as an infant, affirms Christian belief and is admitted as a full member of the Church (基督教)坚信礼,坚振礼 ■the Jewish ceremony of bar mitzvah 犹太男孩成人仪式
语源
Middle English: via Old French from Latin confirmatio(n-), from confirmare 'make firm, establish' (see confirm)