disown

英 [dɪsˈəʊn]

美 [dɪsˈoʊn]

v.  与…断绝关系; 否认对…的责任

过去分词：disowned　过去式：disowned　现在分词：disowning　第三人称单数：disowns　复数：disowns　

TOEFL计算机

BNC.18777 / COCA.20161

牛津词典

verb

• 与…断绝关系；否认对…的责任
  to decide that you no longer want to be connected with or responsible for sb/sth
  1. Her family disowned her for marrying a foreigner.
     她的家人因她嫁给了外国人而与她断绝关系。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 与…断绝关系;否认对…的责任;否认…是自己的
  If youdisownsomeone or something, you say or show that you no longer want to have any connection with them or any responsibility for them.
  1. The man who murdered the girl is no son of mine. I disown him.
     杀害那女孩的人不配做我的儿子。我要与他脱离关系。
  2. Those comments were later disowned by an official army spokesman.
     这些话随后遭到了军方一位官方发言人的否认。

英英释义

verb

• cast off
  1. She renounced her husband
  2. The parents repudiated their son
  Synonym:renouncerepudiate
• prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
  Synonym:disinherit

双语例句

• Chen's parents have tried setting her up on blind dates. At one point her father threatened to disown her if she wasn't married before the end of the year.
  陈小姐的父母也曾经帮她安排过相亲，她的父亲还曾威胁过她必须在那年年底嫁出去，否则就跟她脱离父女关系。
• Disown all that, and the edifice crumbles.
  如果放弃了这些，社会体系就会动摇。
• Those comments were later disowned by an official army spokesman.
  这些话随后遭到了军方一位官方发言人的否认。
• Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
  从今以后她只有在名份上是我的妹妹；倒不是我不认她，是因为她不我。
• It went without saying that her aunt would immediately disown her if she fell pregnant out of wedlock.
  不用说，她如果未婚怀孕，她姨妈就会立刻否认和她的关系的。
• I think my parents would disown me if I ever got a tattoo.
  我觉得如果我文身我的父母就会与我断绝关系。
• Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say,'who is the lord?'or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my god.
  恐怕我饱足不认你，说，耶和华是谁呢？又恐怕我贫穷就偷窃，以致亵渎我神的名。
• My father vowed quite solemnly that if I did marry christopher, he would disown me.
  我父亲十分严肃地宣布，假如我跟克里斯托弗结婚，他就与我断绝关系。
• I'd disown you. that's how strongly I feel about it.
  我将跟你断绝关系，这是我对吸毒的强烈感觉。
• I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.
  我无法不认黑人社区，我也就无法不认他。