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

• 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？
• Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency.
  大多数男人宁死都不愿承认有依赖感。
• Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
  别到头来受制于你所拥有的。
• 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。
• But she wasn't about to own up.
  可是她也不想揽祸上身。
• Anybody else want to own up?
  还有没有人要坦白？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。