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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• And if it was a choice, do you think that every one of us would want to put ourselves through the torture of having your families disown you?
  如果这是一种可选择的生活的话，我们中有谁会把自己拖入那种众叛亲离，备受折磨的痛苦境地中呢？
• 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。
• 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。
• You don't have to disown them completely but just stay away from them during this period.
  但并不需要和朋友完全断交，在这段戒酒的非常时期和他们保持距离就可以了。