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
- 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。 - The One More Time star added: 'You have to own up to the mistakes.
他还说:你必须承认你的错误。 - You had better own up.
你还是招了的好。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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? - 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。