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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• As the blame game expanded, virtually everyone involved in the design of the agreement scrambled to disown it.
  随着问罪范围的扩大，几乎所有参与设计这项协议的人都争相和它撇清关系。
• Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say,'Who is the LORD?
  免得我吃饱了，就不认你，说：'耶和华是谁？
• 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。
• I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.
  我无法不认黑人社区，我也就无法不认他。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。