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
- You'd better own up that you were responsible for the traffic accident.
你最好承认你对那起交通事故负有责任。 - 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。 - She might annoy the crap out of you, but she knows stuff-like who's leaving, who's being promoted-that you can use to strategize your own move up in the company.
她的废话可能会让你觉得很厌烦,但她可能知道谁要离职,谁将升职哦!好好利用她的资源,你就能知道自己在公司应该如何进步。 - Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency.
大多数男人宁死都不愿承认有依赖感。 - We will also say that the Earth Mother as a consciousness has her own tricks up her sleeves that humans may be surprised to discover.
我们也要说的是,地球母亲作为一个意识体自身有着人类可能会很惊讶于发现的妙计。 - 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。 - Given that most of the 60 interview candidates were probably guilty of at least one of the above, why did none of them own up?
鉴于60名受访者中的大部分可能至少拥有七宗罪中的一宗,为什么却没有人坦白承认呢? - Beth: Why didn't he just own up and tell someone?
贝斯:为什么他不坦白说出来? - 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。 - We want them to own up to all their misdeeds, to apologize, to make heartfelt pleas for our forgiveness.
希望他们去承认所有的过错、去道歉、去诚恳求到我们的原谅。