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
- Beth: Why didn't he just own up and tell someone?
贝斯:为什么他不坦白说出来? - 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。 - 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。 - I came to Shawshank when I was just twenty, and I am one of the few people in our happy little family who is willing to own up to what he did.
我刚满二十岁就来到肖申克监狱。在这个快乐小家庭中,我是少数肯痛痛快快承认自己干了什么的人。 - I advise you to own up at once.
我劝你立即坦白。 - 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。 - 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。 - Others write the police should own up to their mistakes bravely instead of covering them up.
还有些人说警察应该坦诚他们的错误,而不是尽量掩盖。 - But she wasn't about to own up.
可是她也不想揽祸上身。