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

• I think my parents would disown me if I ever got a tattoo.
  我觉得如果我文身我的父母就会与我断绝关系。
• I'd disown you. that's how strongly I feel about it.
  我将跟你断绝关系，这是我对吸毒的强烈感觉。
• Disown all that, and the edifice crumbles.
  如果放弃了这些，社会体系就会动摇。
• 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。
• Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it.
  现在，美国新政府可以声明对继承的政策遗产不负责任；但在不远的将来，它将必须负责。
• The man is so cruel that his friend disown him.
  那家伙太残忍，朋友们都和他断绝关系。
• Oh, he said that he would stop paying for school, he was gonna take away my trust fund, disown me.
  噢，他说他会切断我的经济来源，不让我上学。
• When mom and dad disown you and all.
  爸妈还有所有人跟你断绝关系时。
• 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。
• Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say,'who is the lord?'or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my god.
  恐怕我饱足不认你，说，耶和华是谁呢？又恐怕我贫穷就偷窃，以致亵渎我神的名。