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

• Moreover, Ms Lagarde personally may find it hard to disown the Greek rescue programme.
  此外，拉加德本人可能感到，很难斩断自己与希腊纾困计划的联系。
• Giveme the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees beforeinsolent might.
  请赐予我力量，使我永不抛弃穷人，也永不屈膝于淫威。
• You don't have to disown them completely but just stay away from them during this period.
  但并不需要和朋友完全断交，在这段戒酒的非常时期和他们保持距离就可以了。
• Because Mr Obama, though wisely failing to insist on the left's agenda, has chosen not to disown it.
  因为奥巴马没有选择与左派一刀两断，尽管他明智地没有坚持左派的议程。
• 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。
• 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。
• Now they'll disown me.
  现在他们不承认我。
• I intend to look at my darkness rather than attempt to disown it.
  我意愿直面俺滴黑暗，而不是试图否认它。
• This is perhaps the most difficult part for many of us, because we want so much to disown the negative aspects of our humanity.
  这也许对于我们中的许多人最难的一部分，因为我们是如此地渴望断绝作为人类的一切负面品质。
• Disown all that, and the edifice crumbles.
  如果放弃了这些，社会体系就会动摇。