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单词 disavow
释义
disavow
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˌdɪs.əˈvaʊ/us
/ˌdɪs.əˈvaʊ/
to say that youknownothing about something, or that you have noresponsibilityfor orconnectionwith something:
声称对…一无所知；否认对…负有任何责任；声称与…毫无关联
They werequickto disavow therumour.他们迅速否认与那些谣传有任何牵连。
Shetriedto disavow her past.她试图否认自己的过去。
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disavowal
(Definition ofdisavowfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

disavow| American Dictionary

disavow
verb[T]
us
/ˌdɪs·əˈvɑʊ/
to say that youknownothing about or have noresponsibilityfor something:
He disavowed hisearlierconfessionto thepolice.
(Definition ofdisavowfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdisavow

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He thoroughly disavowed every thing of the sort, and regretted that it was ever surmised that such were their motives.
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The attempt to discredit sectarian practices asserted the professionalism of regular medicine by implicitly disavowing its curious past as well as asserting its clinical present.
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Yet this effect of the legalistic context, like the photograph itself, also fades from view by disavowing its status as an effect.
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These could be removed only by publicly disavowing further expansion.$!
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Because of their own superior knowledge, they could reasonablydisavowthe scepticism of others when this conflicted with their own expert opinions.
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Similarly, parties disavowing certain coalition possibilities usually keep those promises as well.
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The author correctly disavows both implications in her comments, but based solely on the translation they are possible interpretations.
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Musical analysts sometimes allow the same mystique to isolate music from culture, or todisavowthe seriousness of musical studies that lack deep formal analysis.
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It articulated a set of values that conservatives wanted desperately todisavow, combining anti-government rhetoric, staunch pro-capitalism, and atheism into a particularly noxious mixture.
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Early modern writers who disavowed deliberate eloquence would, they argued, be taking an anti-rhetorical position.
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What is the freakish secret that the budding diva must choose not todisavow?
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This seems a natural fit : in indeterministic cases, physical law explicitly disavows a role in some aspects of the determination of nature.
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He wisely disavows any attempt summarily to verbalize this vision; but his book and, more importantly, his music each takes us capably towards it.
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But, while the observer locates himself in the midst of his preferred topos, his mode of scienticity disavows his own lived experience of that space.
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Though disavowed, class and its inequalities influence the kinds of writing we study and the universities in which we teach.
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