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

• Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
  从今以后她只有在名份上是我的妹妹；倒不是我不认她，是因为她不我。
• 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。
• I think my parents would disown me if I ever got a tattoo.
  我觉得如果我文身我的父母就会与我断绝关系。
• 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。
• The man is so cruel that his friend disown him.
  那家伙太残忍，朋友们都和他断绝关系。
• Chen's parents have tried setting her up on blind dates. At one point her father threatened to disown her if she wasn't married before the end of the year.
  陈小姐的父母也曾经帮她安排过相亲，她的父亲还曾威胁过她必须在那年年底嫁出去，否则就跟她脱离父女关系。
• Disown all that, and the edifice crumbles.
  如果放弃了这些，社会体系就会动摇。
• This label you cannot accept, so rather than label your Self bad, you disown your own creations.
  可是这个标签你无法接受，所以与其表明是你自己坏od，倒不如否认你自己的创造。
• And if it was a choice, do you think that every one of us would want to put ourselves through the torture of having your families disown you?
  如果这是一种可选择的生活的话，我们中有谁会把自己拖入那种众叛亲离，备受折磨的痛苦境地中呢？
• It went without saying that her aunt would immediately disown her if she fell pregnant out of wedlock.
  不用说，她如果未婚怀孕，她姨妈就会立刻否认和她的关系的。