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
- Beth: Why didn't he just own up and tell someone?
贝斯：为什么他不坦白说出来？ - Do what you say you will do and, if you can't, own up to it early and communicate clearly.
如果你承诺了做某件事，就要做。如果你做不到，早点儿坦白承认并和他人有效地沟通。 - 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。 - Others write the police should own up to their mistakes bravely instead of covering them up.
还有些人说警察应该坦诚他们的错误，而不是尽量掩盖。 - 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。 - You'd better own up before it is too late.
你最好还是趁早交代。 - Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
别到头来受制于你所拥有的。 - Her fingers were still at his lips, and he felt them tremble, and he put his own hand up to hold hers there, and then neither of them could look; they were confused; they were brimming with happiness.
威尔感到自己的嘴唇在颤抖。他抬手，紧紧抓住莱拉的手，然后，他们两人的眼中便没有了其他东西；他们俩心情很复杂，可也荡漾着无言的幸福。 - 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。 - 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。