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

• 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”。
• 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。
• You had better own up.
  你还是招了的好。
• We will also say that the Earth Mother as a consciousness has her own tricks up her sleeves that humans may be surprised to discover.
  我们也要说的是，地球母亲作为一个意识体自身有着人类可能会很惊讶于发现的妙计。
• You'd better own up before it is too late.
  你最好还是趁早交代。
• 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。
• Anybody else want to own up?
  还有没有人要坦白？
• I advise you to own up at once.
  我劝你立即坦白。
• 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。
• 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。