og106 关于admit to sth.的小问题

The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multigovernment lenders to supply the funds.

看到og里有几个地方都说要用admit to sth 但是admit本身好像可以直接加宾语，请问admit sth 和admit to sth 有何不同？ 多谢！

不是牛人，但是查了字典（webster's american dictionary, college edition），上面说admit做及物动词时，有承认某个事实的意思，但是做不及物动词有承认存在某种可能性。从原句看，意思是一个decision造成某种事件可能发生，这并不是已经发生的事实（这一点可以从后面的potential，和could得到验证）基于这些的考虑，应该用admit的不及物词性。

但是LONGMAN中说道有接受blame的意思

2accept blame [intransitive and transitive]
            to say that you have done something wrong, especially something criminal [= confess; ≠ deny]
    

admit to (doing) something
        

A quarter of all workers admit to taking time off when they are not ill.

After questioning, he admitted to the murder.