own up

1. PHRASAL VERB 承认；供认；坦白
   If you own up to 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。

1. Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency.
   大多数男人宁死都不愿承认有依赖感。
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。
3. You had better own up.
   你还是招了的好。
4. I advise you to own up at once.
   我劝你立即坦白。
5. Her fingers were still at his lips, and he felt them tremble, and he put his own hand up to hold hers there, and then neither of them could look; they were confused; they were brimming with happiness.
   威尔感到自己的嘴唇在颤抖。他抬手，紧紧抓住莱拉的手，然后，他们两人的眼中便没有了其他东西；他们俩心情很复杂，可也荡漾着无言的幸福。
6. 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。
7. Beth: Why didn't he just own up and tell someone?
   贝斯：为什么他不坦白说出来？
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. Do what you say you will do and, if you can't, own up to it early and communicate clearly.
    如果你承诺了做某件事，就要做。如果你做不到，早点儿坦白承认并和他人有效地沟通。
13. Indeed, it can be difficult to own up to, say, a$ 70 haircut at a chic salon when your husband shells out just$ 22 at the barber.
    实际上，的确很难坦白说，比如你花了70美元去一家美发沙龙做头发，而你老公在理发店只花了22美元。
14. 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。
15. Given that most of the 60 interview candidates were probably guilty of at least one of the above, why did none of them own up?
    鉴于60名受访者中的大部分可能至少拥有七宗罪中的一宗，为什么却没有人坦白承认呢？
16. 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。
17. But she wasn't about to own up.
    可是她也不想揽祸上身。
18. We will also say that the Earth Mother as a consciousness has her own tricks up her sleeves that humans may be surprised to discover.
    我们也要说的是，地球母亲作为一个意识体自身有着人类可能会很惊讶于发现的妙计。
19. These are very scary subjects for people to own up to.
    这些都是令人类恐慌的东西。
20. You'd better own up before it is too late.
    你最好还是趁早交代。
21. 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。
22. We want them to own up to all their misdeeds, to apologize, to make heartfelt pleas for our forgiveness.
    希望他们去承认所有的过错、去道歉、去诚恳求到我们的原谅。
23. You'd better own up that you were responsible for the traffic accident.
    你最好承认你对那起交通事故负有责任。
24. 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。
25. Don't let the things you own end up oweing you.
    别到头来受制于你所拥有的。
26. The shopkeeper was dismayed when a brand new business much like his own opened up next door and erected a huge sign which read BEST DEALS.
    一家商店的店主最近总是忧心忡忡的，因为在他店的隔壁又新开了一家差不多和自己的店同样规模的新店，并树了一个大招牌“物美价廉”。
27. Others write the police should own up to their mistakes bravely instead of covering them up.
    还有些人说警察应该坦诚他们的错误，而不是尽量掩盖。
28. Sometimes you got your own tongue up your ass.
    有时你最好管好自己的嘴巴。
29. Anybody else want to own up?
    还有没有人要坦白？
30. Under the revised rules, foreign investment banks would be allowed to own up to 33 per cent of a new securities industry joint venture with a local partner, officials said.
    政府官员表示，根据修订后的规定，外资银行与本地合作伙伴新成立证券合资公司，外资银行将获准持有33%的股份。

verb

1. 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