| 词汇 | disown |
| 释义 | disown verb[ Tnot continuous ] uk /dɪˈsəʊn/ us /dɪˈsoʊn/ to make it known that you no longer have any connection with someone that you were closely connected with: 声明与…断绝关系 It's a story set in the last century about a girl whose parents disowned her when she married a foreigner.这是发生在上个世纪的故事，讲述的是一个女孩因嫁给外国人父母与她断绝关系的事。 Compare disinherit Refusing & rejecting abjuration abnegate abnegation bar bat something/someone away decline disavow gainsay oppositional opt opt out pass on pass something up punt on something rebel refuse sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom tear wash your hands of somethingidiom would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom disown | American Dictionarydisown verb[ T ] us/dɪsˈoʊn/ to state that you no longer have any connection with someone that you used to be closely connected with Examples of disowndisown In acting for the good of the family as a whole, they meet and decide to disown him. In his opinion, the marriages do survive but mostly without the support of their families, who frequently disown them. Strictly speaking, a victim cannot disown a harmful act - it is not his or her act in the first place ! Very often we 'disown' experience because it is unpleasant or a source of anxiety. My real objection now, however, is that even if the term ' disown ' makes sense here, it is too weak for what is at stake. Family and relationship worries were also important : losing contact, being disowned, the ending of relationships and the feelings of the family. In more extreme cases yet, the current me can disavow and disown current aspects of ' itself ' with which it alternates for control of this one body (multiple personality cases). The same governors later disowned the report. He even disowned his first, radical ^ work. Collingwood (1970: 18) argues that consciousness is corruptible and that experience can be disowned, a process psychologists refer to as 'repression', 'projection' and 'dissociation'. Of course, a believer can be dishonest with himself or otherwise insincere in assessing his beliefs, failing to properly disown a belief that really has become irrational for her. By doing his act of disowning, by doing something which costs him time, effort, and money, he constitutes that act as a meant and serious act. The loquaciousness which had already irritated friends at the university, his words that would "blossom into _ower," now becomes a decided encumbrance since his father disowned him. It is very handy to disown your friends now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since then, confusion has reigned, with some newspapers saying that his leader is going to back him, and others saying that he should be disowned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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