disown

英 [dɪsˈəʊn]

美 [dɪsˈoʊn]

v.  与…断绝关系; 否认对…的责任

过去分词：disowned　过去式：disowned　现在分词：disowning　第三人称单数：disowns　复数：disowns　

TOEFL计算机

BNC.18777 / COCA.20161

牛津词典

verb

• 与…断绝关系；否认对…的责任
  to decide that you no longer want to be connected with or responsible for sb/sth
  1. Her family disowned her for marrying a foreigner.
     她的家人因她嫁给了外国人而与她断绝关系。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 与…断绝关系;否认对…的责任;否认…是自己的
  If youdisownsomeone or something, you say or show that you no longer want to have any connection with them or any responsibility for them.
  1. The man who murdered the girl is no son of mine. I disown him.
     杀害那女孩的人不配做我的儿子。我要与他脱离关系。
  2. Those comments were later disowned by an official army spokesman.
     这些话随后遭到了军方一位官方发言人的否认。

英英释义

verb

• cast off
  1. She renounced her husband
  2. The parents repudiated their son
  Synonym:renouncerepudiate
• prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
  Synonym:disinherit

双语例句

• As the blame game expanded, virtually everyone involved in the design of the agreement scrambled to disown it.
  随着问罪范围的扩大，几乎所有参与设计这项协议的人都争相和它撇清关系。
• Despite his criticism of Wright's racially-tinged comments over the years, Obama said he will not disown his former minister.
  尽管他批评了赖特多年来富有种族色彩的评论，奥巴马说，他不会抛弃他过去的牧师。
• Giveme the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees beforeinsolent might.
  请赐予我力量，使我永不抛弃穷人，也永不屈膝于淫威。
• I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.
  我无法不认黑人社区，我也就无法不认他。
• Disown all that, and the edifice crumbles.
  如果放弃了这些，社会体系就会动摇。
• 31But Peter insisted emphatically," Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you. "And all the others said the same.
  31彼得却极力地说：“我就是必须和你同死，也总不能不认你！”众门徒都是这样说。
• This is perhaps the most difficult part for many of us, because we want so much to disown the negative aspects of our humanity.
  这也许对于我们中的许多人最难的一部分，因为我们是如此地渴望断绝作为人类的一切负面品质。
• The man who murdered the girl is no son of mine. I disown him.
  杀害那女孩的人不配做我的儿子。我要与他脱离关系。
• I intend to look at my darkness rather than attempt to disown it.
  我意愿直面俺滴黑暗，而不是试图否认它。
• Those comments were later disowned by an official army spokesman.
  这些话随后遭到了军方一位官方发言人的否认。