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

• Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
  别到头来受制于你所拥有的。
• I advise you to own up at once.
  我劝你立即坦白。
• 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。
• But she wasn't about to own up.
  可是她也不想揽祸上身。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。