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

• 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。
• 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。
• Today, the new US administration can disown responsibility for its inheritance; tomorrow, it will own it.
  现在，美国新政府可以声明对继承的政策遗产不负责任；但在不远的将来，它将必须负责。
• Now they'll disown me.
  现在他们不承认我。
• 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。
• 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。
• 31But Peter insisted emphatically," Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you. "And all the others said the same.
  31彼得却极力地说：“我就是必须和你同死，也总不能不认你！”众门徒都是这样说。
• Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say,'who is the lord?'or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my god.
  恐怕我饱足不认你，说，耶和华是谁呢？又恐怕我贫穷就偷窃，以致亵渎我神的名。
• 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。
• 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？