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

• 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。
• 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。
• Do what you say you will do and, if you can't, own up to it early and communicate clearly.
  如果你承诺了做某件事，就要做。如果你做不到，早点儿坦白承认并和他人有效地沟通。
• 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。
• 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。
• Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
  别到头来受制于你所拥有的。
• 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。
• I advise you to own up at once.
  我劝你立即坦白。
• But she wasn't about to own up.
  可是她也不想揽祸上身。
• 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。