| 单词 | own up |
| 释义 | own upown up phrasal verbphr v ADMITto admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not serious 承认〔犯错误，尤指小错〕 Come on, own up. Who broke it? 快点，说出来，是谁把它打碎的？ own up to (doing) something No one owned up to breaking the window. 没人承认打破了窗子。 He was too frightened to own up to his mistake. 他吓得不敢认错。 He still wouldn’t own up to the fact that he’d lied. 他还是不肯承认自己说谎了。 Examples from the Corpus own up• Unless the guilty person owns up, the whole class will be punished.• No one owned up to breaking the window.• I made a few mistakes, but I owned up to them. own up to (doing) something• There are, however, those organizations who are rightfully fearful of owning up to the truth about their attitudes and actions.• We expect you to behave yourself in here and own up to all the charges.• Yesterday, Apple owned up to an apparent breakdown in communications.• Not if you own up to it, anyway.• Almost every environmental organization would have to own up to the occasional creative exaggeration of the facts. → own up at own2(2) |
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