acknowledging
present participle ofacknowledge
| 单词 | acknowledging |
| 释义 | acknowledging present participle ofacknowledge acknowledge verb[T] uk/əkˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/əkˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/C1 toaccept,admit, orrecognizesomething, or thetruthorexistenceof something: [+ -ing verb]She acknowledged havingbeen atfault. [+ that]She acknowledgedthatshe had been atfault. You must acknowledge thetruthof herargument. Historiansgenerallyacknowledge herasageniusin herfield. [+ obj + to infinitive]She is usually acknowledgedtobe one ofourbestartists. Theyrefusedto acknowledge(= torecognizeofficially)the newgovernment. He didn'tevenacknowledge mypresence(= show that he hadseenme). Thegovernmentwon'tevenacknowledge theexistenceof theproblem. to say that you are wrong
to accept that something is true
C1 totellsomeone, usually in aletteroremail, that you havereceivedsomething theysentyou: Please acknowledgereceiptofthisletter. to answer someone
Admitting & confessing
Examplesofacknowledgingacknowledging In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Working within the principles of organic agriculture and thusacknowledgingthe values of the system is also an important context for research. From theCambridge English Corpus This would meanacknowledgingthe things we don't know and systematising them in the sense of seeing how they relate, what they add up to. From theCambridge English Corpus State courts continued to recognize the unique position of the marital contract into the twentieth century byacknowledgingits public purposes. From theCambridge English Corpus Acknowledgingthe prior operation of group selection provides an evolutionarily coherent explanation of the survival of human behavioral predispositions that enable social cooperation. From theCambridge English Corpus Joking about frailty was also a means ofacknowledgingthe presence of death. From theCambridge English Corpus Acknowledgingthis right encourages physicians to actively enforce their own ethical standards. From theCambridge English Corpus Also, the unrelated donors we interviewed were generally quite open aboutacknowledgingthat they had received money for donating their kidneys. From theCambridge English Corpus Nor are we simplyacknowledgingthe comments as potential weaknesses to our proposals. From theCambridge English Corpus However, the legal field of divorce, and any other type of legal field, cannot be fully grasped withoutacknowledgingthe role of formal law. From theCambridge English Corpus This tends to focus on the link between past experiences and the present situation, whilstacknowledgingthe unconscious forces affecting the client's behaviour. From theCambridge English Corpus Acknowledgingthe feelings of remorse, anger, guilt, inadequacy, humiliation, and fear is the first step toward resolution and an important prerequisite for the other steps. From theCambridge English Corpus I knew that signing the form was my way ofacknowledgingthat she was dying. From theCambridge English Corpus Overall, this report is both comprehensive and useful, whileacknowledgingthat pension reforms can only really be judged successful over a relatively long time horizon. From theCambridge English Corpus Acknowledgingthe possibility of negative scenarios, experts attached greater likelihood to positive ones. From theCambridge English Corpus Probably, in some cases, they explicitly drew their inspiration from that source, although notacknowledgingit openly. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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