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own up

英 [əʊn ʌp]

美 [oʊn ʌp]

承认; 供认; 坦白

柯林斯词典

  • PHRASAL VERB 承认;供认;坦白
    If youown upto something wrong that you have done, you admit that you did it.
    1. The headmaster is waiting for someone to own up...
      校长在等着有人站出来承认。
    2. Last year my husband owned up to a secret affair with his secretary.
      去年丈夫向我坦白了他与秘书的私情。

英英释义

verb

  • 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 offess up

双语例句

  • It is incredibly difficult to fail publicly and own up to it.
    在众目睽睽之下遭遇失败,并且承认失败,这简直太难了。
  • I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in our happy little family who is willing to own up to what he did.
    我刚满二十岁就来到肖申克监狱。在这个快乐小家庭中,我是少数肯痛痛快快承认自己干了什么的人。
  • Her fingers were still at his lips, and he felt them tremble, and he put his own hand up to hold hers there, and then neither of them could look; they were confused; they were brimming with happiness.
    威尔感到自己的嘴唇在颤抖。他抬手,紧紧抓住莱拉的手,然后,他们两人的眼中便没有了其他东西;他们俩心情很复杂,可也荡漾着无言的幸福。
  • Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
    别到头来受制于你所拥有的。
  • Cap'n Smollett's a fine seaman, as I'll own up to any day, but stiff on discipline.
    斯摩莱特船长是个出色的海员,我一直这么说,但他的纪律太严。
  • Responsible persons are mature persons who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their own actions and own up to them, who answer for them.
    负责的人是成熟的人,他们为自己和自己的行为负责,勇于作为,敢作敢当。
  • Under the revised rules, foreign investment banks would be allowed to own up to 33 per cent of a new securities industry joint venture with a local partner, officials said.
    政府官员表示,根据修订后的规定,外资银行与本地合作伙伴新成立证券合资公司,外资银行将获准持有33%的股份。
  • You'd better own up before it is too late.
    你最好还是趁早交代。
  • Last year my husband owned up to a secret affair with his secretary.
    去年丈夫向我坦白了他与秘书的私情。
  • You had better own up.
    你还是招了的好。