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.- The headmaster is waiting for someone to own up...
校长在等着有人站出来承认。 - 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。
- The headmaster is waiting for someone to own up...
英英释义
verb
- admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
- the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting
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。