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

• Sometimes you got your own tongue up your ass.
  有时你最好管好自己的嘴巴。
• Responsible persons are mature persons who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their own actions and own up to them, who answer for them.
  负责的人是成熟的人，他们为自己和自己的行为负责，勇于作为，敢作敢当。
• Since they never own up to guilt, they never improve and no one wants to work with them.
  由于他们从不承认自己的错误，也就永远得不到进步没有人想和他们合作。
• 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。
• You'd better own up before it is too late.
  你最好还是趁早交代。
• But she wasn't about to own up.
  可是她也不想揽祸上身。
• It is incredibly difficult to fail publicly and own up to it.
  在众目睽睽之下遭遇失败，并且承认失败，这简直太难了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Cap'n Smollett's a fine seaman, as I'll own up to any day, but stiff on discipline.
  斯摩莱特船长是个出色的海员，我一直这么说，但他的纪律太严。