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

• 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。
• 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。
• Now they'll disown me.
  现在他们不承认我。
• 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。
• 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。
• Despite his criticism of Wright's racially-tinged comments over the years, Obama said he will not disown his former minister.
  尽管他批评了赖特多年来富有种族色彩的评论，奥巴马说，他不会抛弃他过去的牧师。
• 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。
• 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。
• My father vowed quite solemnly that if I did marry christopher, he would disown me.
  我父亲十分严肃地宣布，假如我跟克里斯托弗结婚，他就与我断绝关系。
• 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。