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? - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - These are very scary subjects for people to own up to.
这些都是令人类恐慌的东西。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - You'd better own up that you were responsible for the traffic accident.
你最好承认你对那起交通事故负有责任。 - Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
别到头来受制于你所拥有的。