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

• Beth: Why didn't he just own up and tell someone?
  贝斯：为什么他不坦白说出来？
• But she wasn't about to own up.
  可是她也不想揽祸上身。
• Sometimes you got your own tongue up your ass.
  有时你最好管好自己的嘴巴。
• 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。
• Responsible persons are mature persons who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their own actions and own up to them, who answer for them.
  负责的人是成熟的人，他们为自己和自己的行为负责，勇于作为，敢作敢当。
• These are very scary subjects for people to own up to.
  这些都是令人类恐慌的东西。
• You'd better own up before it is too late.
  你最好还是趁早交代。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。