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

• 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。
• Sometimes you got your own tongue up your ass.
  有时你最好管好自己的嘴巴。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I advise you to own up at once.
  我劝你立即坦白。