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

• 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。
• 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。
• You'd better own up before it is too late.
  你最好还是趁早交代。
• 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？
• 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。
• She might annoy the crap out of you, but she knows stuff-like who's leaving, who's being promoted-that you can use to strategize your own move up in the company.
  她的废话可能会让你觉得很厌烦，但她可能知道谁要离职，谁将升职哦！好好利用她的资源，你就能知道自己在公司应该如何进步。
• 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。
• You had better own up.
  你还是招了的好。
• 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。
• Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
  别到头来受制于你所拥有的。