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.- The headmaster is waiting for someone to own up...
校长在等着有人站出来承认。 - 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。
- The headmaster is waiting for someone to own up...
英英释义
verb
- admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
- the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting
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。 - 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。 - The shopkeeper was dismayed when a brand new business much like his own opened up next door and erected a huge sign which read BEST DEALS.
一家商店的店主最近总是忧心忡忡的，因为在他店的隔壁又新开了一家差不多和自己的店同样规模的新店，并树了一个大招牌“物美价廉”。 - 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。 - Anybody else want to own up?
还有没有人要坦白？ - Sometimes you got your own tongue up your ass.
有时你最好管好自己的嘴巴。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - These are very scary subjects for people to own up to.
这些都是令人类恐慌的东西。