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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

  • Indeed, it can be difficult to own up to, say, a$ 70 haircut at a chic salon when your husband shells out just$ 22 at the barber.
    实际上,的确很难坦白说,比如你花了70美元去一家美发沙龙做头发,而你老公在理发店只花了22美元。
  • Since they never own up to guilt, they never improve and no one wants to work with them.
    由于他们从不承认自己的错误,也就永远得不到进步没有人想和他们合作。
  • These are very scary subjects for people to own up to.
    这些都是令人类恐慌的东西。
  • Being honest about the real reason youre late shows you have the courage to own up to your mistakes, instead of assigning blame whenever something goes wrong.
    诚实地告诉他你迟到的真正原因,那会显得你有承认错误的勇气,而不是一出了问题就推卸责任。
  • 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。
  • You had better own up.
    你还是招了的好。
  • Sometimes you got your own tongue up your ass.
    有时你最好管好自己的嘴巴。
  • 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。
  • So if we want to know what makes them successful in order to improve our own companies whether we work for a huge one or our own start up we need to study them.
    因此,如果我们想要了解是什么促使他们成功以便提高我们自己的公司,无论我们是服务于一家大型公司还是我们自己的初创企业我们有必要对他们进行研究。
  • You'd better own up before it is too late.
    你最好还是趁早交代。