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单词 disown
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disown
verb[Tnot continuous]
uk
/dɪˈsəʊn/us
/dɪˈsoʊn/
to make itknownthat you nolongerhave anyconnectionwith someone that you werecloselyconnectedwith:
声明与…断绝关系
It's astoryset in the lastcenturyabout agirlwhoseparentsdisowned her when shemarriedaforeigner.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。
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(Definition ofdisownfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

disown| American Dictionary

disown
verb[T]
us
/dɪsˈoʊn/
tostatethat you nolongerhave anyconnectionwith someone that you used to becloselyconnectedwith
(Definition ofdisownfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdisown

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In acting for the good of the family as a whole, they meet and decide todisownhim.
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In his opinion, the marriages do survive but mostly without the support of their families, who frequentlydisownthem.
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Strictly speaking, a victim cannotdisowna harmful act - it is not his or her act in the first place !
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Very often we 'disown' experience because it is unpleasant or a source of anxiety.
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My real objection now, however, is that even if the term 'disown' makes sense here, it is too weak for what is at stake.
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Family and relationship worries were also important : losing contact, being disowned, the ending of relationships and the feelings of the family.
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In more extreme cases yet, the current me can disavow anddisowncurrent aspects of ' itself ' with which it alternates for control of this one body (multiple personality cases).
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The same governors later disowned the report.
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He even disowned his first, radical ^ work.
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Collingwood (1970: 18) argues that consciousness is corruptible and that experience can be disowned, a process psychologists refer to as 'repression', 'projection' and 'dissociation'.
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Of course, a believer can be dishonest with himself or otherwise insincere in assessing his beliefs, failing to properlydisowna belief that really has become irrational for her.
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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.
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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.
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It is very handy todisownyour friends now.
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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.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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