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

• 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。
• But she wasn't about to own up.
  可是她也不想揽祸上身。
• The One More Time star added: 'You have to own up to the mistakes.
  他还说：你必须承认你的错误。
• 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。
• These are very scary subjects for people to own up to.
  这些都是令人类恐慌的东西。
• 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。
• 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。
• Beth: Why didn't he just own up and tell someone?
  贝斯：为什么他不坦白说出来？
• Sometimes you got your own tongue up your ass.
  有时你最好管好自己的嘴巴。
• You had better own up.
  你还是招了的好。