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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• You'd better own up before it is too late.
  你最好还是趁早交代。
• Anybody else want to own up?
  还有没有人要坦白？
• Beth: Why didn't he just own up and tell someone?
  贝斯：为什么他不坦白说出来？