Disown
[dɪs'əʊn] or [dɪs'on]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) cast off; 'She renounced her husband'; 'The parents repudiated their son'.
简錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly disown his child; an author will sometimes disown his writings.
(v. t.) To refuse to acknowledge or allow; to deny.
霍雷肖整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Disclaim, disavow, refuse to acknowledge.[2]. Deny, disallow.
手打:丽贝卡
解釋/意思:
v.t. to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self: to deny: to repudiate cast off—n. Disown′ment.
錄入:威廉敏娜
例句/造句/用法:
- As if you could not sooner disown your own personality! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Do you disown us? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I have heard that she quite astonished her husband by the spirit which she exhibited in this quarrel, and her determination to disown Mrs. Becky. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Ryder stood glaring with a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- If you grow fat I disown you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Mr. Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer: I intended no pointed repartee: it was only a blunder. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Neither did the Rabbins disown such acquaintance with supernatural arts, which added nothing (for what could add aught? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- He's disowned his own father. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- His mother's sister made a bad match--a Pole, I think--lost herself--at any rate was disowned by her family. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- So the patient work of the German schoolmasters was disowned, and the Hohenzollern declared himself triumphant. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He looked piteously at my lord, who never spoke to him during dinner, and at the ladies, who disowned him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Never for an instant did I dream of disowning her as my child. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- His own father therefore, disowns him for ever and ever, as a unnat'ral young beggar. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
手打:内蒂