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BNC: 118 COCA: 148

own

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own1 /əʊn $ oʊn/ ●●● S1 W1 adjectiveadj , pronoun [always after a possessive]  
1  OWNused to emphasize that something belongs to or is connected with a particular person or thing and not any other 自己的，属于自己的
 Bring your own equipment.
带上你自己的装备。
 Every dance has its own rhythm.
每一种舞蹈都有自己的节奏。
 The yacht was intended for the King’s own personal use.
这艘游艇是专供国王私用的。
 His face was only a few inches from her own.
他的脸离她自己的脸非常近。
of your own
 We have problems of our own.
我们也有自己的困难。
 I’d like to have a place of my own (=my own home).
我想有个属于自己的地方。
your very own (=used to add more emphasis) 完全属于自己的〔用于强调〕
 One day I want to have a horse of my very own.
总有一天我要有一匹完全属于我自己的马。
something to call your own/which you can call your own (=something that belongs to you) 属于自己的东西
 She just wanted a place to call her own.
她只是想要个属于她自己的地方。
2  INDEPENDENT PERSONHELPused to emphasize that someone did or made something without the help or involvement of anyone else 自己的〔强调没有别人的帮助或介入〕
 She makes a lot of her own clothes.
她许多衣服都自己做。
 We encourage students to develop their own ideas.
我们鼓励学生要有自己的想法。
 It’s your own fault for leaving the window open.
是你自己不好，没把窗户关上。
3  (all) on your own 
a) ALONEalone 单独地，独自地
 I’ve been living on my own for four years now.
我已经独自生活了四年。
 He didn’t want to be left on his own.
他不想被独自留下。
b) HELPwithout anyone’s help 无援地，独立地
 You can’t expect him to do it all on his own.
你不能指望全部由他一个人来做。
 I can manage on my own, thanks.
我自己能行，谢谢。
Examples from the Corpus
left on ... own• I did not want to be left on my own.• Ipswich could have fallen further behind after 54 minutes when Wilkinson sent Hendrie tearing through on the left on his own.• The hope, of course, was always that one would be left on one's own.• When he died of wounds suffered in the Civil War, she was left on her own.• Shouldn't have been left on his own, but that's Rose Hilaire for you.• Starch had not been left on his own right away.• But we can't find him and are left on our own to experiment.• I was left on my own, with no help from anyone.
4  for your own good/safety/benefit etc if you do something for someone’s own good etc, you do it to help them even though they might not like it or want it 为你自己的好处/安全/利益等
 I’m only telling you this for your own good.
我是为了你好才告诉你这些的。
 He was kept away from the other prisoners for his own safety.
把他和其他囚犯隔离开来是为了他的安全。
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for your own good/safety/benefit etc• He will work for your financial independence and will never take advantage or misuse your money for his own good.• Intelligent Buildings Too smart for their own good?• It looked as if the transports were advancing too fast for their own safety.• Lewin and Nnah were also led away for their own safety.• Of course they kept a sharp lookout in such congested waters for their own safety.• Often one step too many for his own good.• We got too famous for our own good.• You might be just a wee bit too clever for your own good now.
5  too nice/clever etc for your own good used to say that someone has too much of a good quality so that it may be a disadvantage 过分好/聪明等对你没好处
 Stephen can be too generous for his own good.
斯蒂芬有时慷慨过头，反而对自己不好。
Examples from the Corpus
too nice/clever etc for your own good• According to her, he was too clever for his own good.• That Tom was too nice for his own good.• They were both too nice for their own good.• You might be just a wee bit too clever for your own good now.
6  get your own back (on somebody) informalREVENGE to do something bad to someone who has harmed you, as a way of punishing them (对某人)报复，(向某人)复仇 → revenge
 She wanted to get her own back on Liz for ruining her party.
她要报复利兹毁了她的派对。
Examples from the Corpus
get your own back (on somebody)• But you can get your own back.• I've gotta get my own back.• Tupac stoked the feud, claiming to have slept with Biggie Smalls's wife, Smalls threatened to get his own back.• Was that a way of getting his own back?• Women get their own back by borrowing their man's razor.• I hope you haven't gone and done anything silly to it just to get your own back for me going away.• By launching the new forum Mr Heseltine is getting his own back on the now weakened Mr Lamont.• The only way Scott could get his own back was by replacing my voice during the post-production.
7  be your own man/woman INDEPENDENT PERSONto have strong opinions and intentions that are not influenced by other people 有自己的主意，有主见
 Hilary’s very much her own woman.
希拉丽是个非常有主见的女人。
Examples from the Corpus
be your own man/woman• The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.• You can be your own man.• Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.• At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.• But Erlich was his own man.• He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.• He was his own man, after all.• Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.• Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.• She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.• Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
8  make something your own to change or deal with something in a way that makes it seem to belong to you 使某物变得像自己的
Examples from the Corpus
make something your own• Brucha has lived in his off-trail shack for 14 years, and in that time, he has made it his own.• Wonder if this might be right moment to make arrangements for my own.• At this last, Seton left them, to make for his own castle near Cockenzie, with his terrible news.• The shape it made created its own following silence, and they sat, both in the ease of it.• The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women.• Over the years he continued to make something distinctively his own of the solo that he thought of as a poem.• Some researchers have been able to make use of their own skills to gain access to a group.• Her sincerity made me doubt my own version of events.
→ come into your own at come1(6), → hold your own at hold1(24)
5 GRAMMAR 语法
Use own only after possessive words such as ‘my’, ‘John’s’, ‘the company’s’ etc. own仅用于my, John’s, the company’s等所有格形式之后
Few of them got back to their own country (NOT 不说 the own country).
他们中很少有人返回祖国。
Do not say ‘an own car/room/computer etc’. Say a car/room/computer etc of your own 不要说 ‘an own car/room/computer etc’. 而要说 a car/room/computer etc of your own
He soon had enough money to buy a truck of his own.
很快他就有钱买了一辆属于自己的卡车。
n Grammar
You say my own, her own, their own etc:
They miss their own country.
The town has its own station.
✗Don’t say: They miss the own country. | The town has an own station.
You can also say of my own, of her own, of their own etc:
I want to have a room of my own.
Each house has a garden of its own.
Examples from the Corpus
of your own• Our neighbours let us use their garage, but we really need one of our own.• Yet on this tax cut issue Dole has little credibility of his own.• The charity provides accommodation for homeless people, and helps them find homes of their own.• But once set in motion, the enormous machinery of a traditional wedding had a life of its own.• One is killed, or lives as a cringing inferior who may never have cubs of her own.• He has three young daughters of his own, and loses no time in stamping his authority on the entire brood.• How does a bat keep track of its own echoes, and avoid being misled by the echoes of others?• They've got ideas of their own, go their own way.• She could use this capital to dictate the form of reconstruction and to extend the areas of her own influence.• The couple said they spent more than $ 2,000 of their own money to build a new home.
own fault• Anyway, I was brought up to believe that whatever happens to people is their own fault.• But he knew that people thought otherwise, and that their false impression was his own fault.• He had misjudged the situation, and if he had added to his problems, it was his own fault.• The impression we got was that they thought it was pretty much his own fault.• These were groups in need of institutional care and whose need could not always be attributed to their own fault.• My customer did not like his loss, but it was just as much his own fault as mine.• And I know he's nasty to Auntie Lou sometimes but it's her own fault because she lets him be.• You could not mistake the absolute assumption that this mess was not only their own fault but something to be ashamed of.
own2 ●●● S2 W2 verb [transitiveT]  
1  OWNto have something which belongs to you, especially because you have bought it, been given it etc and it is legally yours 〔尤指通过购买、接受赠与等而合法地〕拥有〔某物〕 → possess
2  as if/as though/like you own the place informalCONFIDENT to behave in a way that is too confident and upsets other people 就像是这里的主人似的〔指表现过于大模大样而令他人不快〕
3  old-fashionedTRUE to admit that something is true 承认
n4  informal to defeat someone very easily or by a large amount
5 own up phrasal verbphr v ADMITto admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not serious 承认〔犯错误，尤指小错〕
Examples from the Corpus
own up• Unless the guilty person owns up, the whole class will be punished.• No one owned up to breaking the window.• I made a few mistakes, but I owned up to them.
own up to (doing) something• There are, however, those organizations who are rightfully fearful of owning up to the truth about their attitudes and actions.• We expect you to behave yourself in here and own up to all the charges.• Yesterday, Apple owned up to an apparent breakdown in communications.• Not if you own up to it, anyway.• Almost every environmental organization would have to own up to the occasional creative exaggeration of the facts.
n GRAMMAR: Using the progressive
Own is not used in the progressive. You say:
They own several cars.
✗Don’t say: They are owning several cars.
 THESAURUS
own if you own something, it legally belongs to you 〔合法地〕拥有
They live in a flat but they don’t own it.
他们住在一套公寓里，但不是业主。
The land is owned by farmers.
这片土地归农场主所有。
a privately owned plane
私人飞机
have [not in passive] to own something – used when focussing on the fact that someone has the use of something, rather than the fact that they legally own it 拥有〔侧重于使用权而非拥有权〕
How many students have a cell phone?
多少学生有手机？
I wish I had a sports car.
真希望我有一辆跑车。
possess [not in passive] formal to own something 拥有
It is illegal to possess a firearm in Britain.
在英国拥有枪支是非法的。
I don’t even possess a smart suit!
我连一身漂亮套装都没有！
belong to somebody/something [not in passive] if something belongs to you, you own it 属于某人/某物
The ring belonged to my grandmother.
这枚戒指是我祖母的。
hold to own shares in a company 拥有〔公司股份〕
One man holds a third of the company’s shares.
有个人拥有公司三分之一的股份。
be the property of somebody/something formal to be owned by someone – written on signs, labels etc 为某人/某物所有〔书写于指示牌、标签上等〕
This camera is the property of the BBC.
这台摄影机为英国广播公司所有。
Examples from the Corpus
own• I don't even own a car.• We don't own a picnic hamper.• They own a small electronics company.• Andy and his wife own a vacation home near the beach.• Clark owns about 40 companies in northern Europe.• It is an actual spacecraft from the Soviet space shuttle program, owned and operated by former cosmonauts and space program employees.• The horse is owned by a Saudi businessman.• Tasika Angus, owned by D. Judah.• She was owned by Peter Phillips.• The company was previously owned by the French government.• American newspapers in different cities are often owned by the same company.• They stayed in a villa once owned by the writer, Somerset Maugham.• The property was purchased for investment purposes, and is still owned only because of the current property slump. 3.• We don't own the apartment, we're just renting it.• In fact, it was the ogre who owned the land that the king had just driven through.• In National Parks, although the land is privately owned, there are strict controls on the use of the land.• Also, my uncle owns this ship!
publicly/privately owned• Fujisankei, itself privately owned and independent, seems the ideal partner.• Because fraternities are privately owned and run, they are for the most part beyond the jurisdiction of academic institutions.• The dead stock was usually sold in one or other of the privately owned auction marts.• His name would be linked for ever with the principle of publicly owned hydroelectric power in Ontario.• Though privately owned, it is open to the public for bird watching.• The privately owned land is a steep, rugged parcel of 171 acres near Highway 92.• This is not entirely the result of political control, since the privately owned press shows no greater inclination towards investigative journalism.• The 27-mile autoroute, intended to relieve congestion on the M6, is the first of several proposed privately owned toll roads.
own (that)• No one can pretend that his stooping, kneeling, and digging figures are beautiful, either by contemporary standards or our own.• A mutual fund is a portfolio of stocks or bonds that is jointly owned by a large number of investors.• State governments developed extensive programs to help the elderly stay in their own homes rather than go into nursing homes.• Besides, his own party's do-or-die tendency will now be vigilant against any hint of gradualism.• Nor is it self evident that the profession could reasonably be expected to fund such a massive activity out of its own pocket.• And Sethe would oblige her with anything from fabric to her own tongue.• She was sharp, Mrs Wright, in her own way.
From Longman Business Dictionary
ownown /əʊnoʊn/ verb [transitiveT]
to have or possess something that is legally yours
He still owns shares in the company.
The company is owned by a foreign consortium.
Origin own2
Old English agnian, from agen “own”
own1 adjectiveadj →5 GRAMMAR1 →n GRAMMAR2own2 verb →n GRAMMAR1 →THESAURUS1
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BNC: 118 COCA: 148
own

verb

ADVERB | PHRASES ADVERB➤independently獨自擁有➤formerly, once, originally, previously先前／曾經／原本／以前擁有◇The car was once owned by Elvis Presley.這輛車曾經屬於埃爾維斯・普雷斯利。➤legally合法擁有◇He committed the crime with a gun that he legally owned.他使用自己合法擁有的槍支犯下此罪。➤communally, jointly公有；共同擁有◇Only when the means of production were communally owned would classes disappear.只有當生產資料公有時，階級才會消失。◇She owns the house jointly with her husband.她和丈夫共同擁有這所房子。PHRASES➤directly owned by sb, indirectly owned by sb為某人直接／為某人間接擁有▸➤own your own boat, home, etc.擁有自己的船、住宅等◇They dreamed of owning their own home.他們夢想着有自己的房子。➤partly owned by sb, wholly owned by sb為某人部份／為某人完全擁有◇The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of SNL Research.該公司是 SNL 研究院的全資子公司。➤privately owned, publicly owned私有；公有◇The museum is privately owned.這個博物館歸私人所有。
BNC: 118 COCA: 148
own pron.
⇨ on your own ⇨ alone adj. adv.own verb
⇨ have 1 own

adjective

own ♦︎ personal ♦︎ individual ♦︎ private ♦︎ subjective ♦︎ exclusiveThese words are all used to talk about sth that belongs to or is connected with one particular person. 这些词均表示自己的、本人的、个人的。PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆sb's own / personal / individual / private / subjective experience◆sb's own / personal / private / subjective opinion◆sb's own / personal / private / exclusive property◆sb's own / personal / individual needs / requirements / objectives / freedom■ own belonging to or connected with a particular person; done or produced by and for yourself 自己的；本人的；自己做的；为自己的◆It was her own idea.那是她自己的主意。◆I saw it with my own eyes (= I didn't hear about it from sb else).我亲眼看见的。◆Our children are grown up and have children of their own.我们的子女都已长大成人，有了自己的孩子。◆For reasons of his own (= special reasons that perhaps only he knew about) he refused to join the club.出于个人的原因，他谢绝加入俱乐部。◆The accident happened through no fault of her own.这一事故的发生不是她本人的过错。◆He wants to come into the business on his own terms.他想依自己开出的条件加入这家公司。◆I need a room of my own.我需要有一个自己的房间。◆I have my very own room at last.我终于有了自己的房间。◆She makes all her own clothes.她的衣服都是自己做的。ⓘ Own cannot be used after an article. * own不能用在冠词之后◆I need my own room.我需要有自己的房间。◆I need an own room. ◆It's good to have your own room.有自己的房间真好。◆It's good to have a room of the own. ■ personal [only before noun] your own; not belonging to or connected with anyone else 个人的；私人的◆They packed up their personal belongings and left.他们收拾好自己的个人物品离开了。◆The receptionist asked for my personal details (= my name, age, etc.).接待员询问了我的个人资料。◆Of course, this is just a personal opinion.当然了，这只是个人意见。◆The novel is written from personal experience.这部小说是根据个人亲身经历写成的。◆All hire cars are for personal use (= not business use) only.所有租赁车辆仅供个人使用。◆Use stencils to add a few personal touches to walls and furniture.用模板给墙壁和家具增添些个人风格。◆He has run a personal best of just under four minutes.他跑出了刚好低于四分钟的个人最好成绩。▸ personally

adverb

◆Personally, I prefer the second option.就我个人而言，我倾向第二种选择。■ individual [only before noun] connected with one person; designed for one person 一个人的；供一人用的◆Respect for individual freedom is a cornerstone of our culture.对个人自由的尊重是我们文化的基石。◆Try to measure in individual portions how much people will eat.根据每个人的食量，尽量估算出大伙儿要吃多少。OPP communal ⇨ common   see also individual ⇨ particular adj. , individual ⇨ person noun ▸ individually

adverb

◆The manager spoke to them all individually.经理和他们每个人逐一谈话。■ private [usually before noun] belonging to or for the use of a particular person or group; not for public use 私有的；私用的；自用的◆The sign said, 'Private property. Keep out.'标牌上写着：“私人宅地，禁止入内。”◆Those are my father's private papers.那些都是我父亲的私人文件。◆The hotel has 110 bedrooms, all with private bathrooms.这家旅馆有110间客房，各有独立卫生间。 OPP public ⇨ common   see also privacy ⇨ privacy NOTE 辨析 Personal or private? Personal things, details, etc. actually belong to a particular individual person and not any other individual person. Private things belong to a particular person or group, or are for them to use; they are not for people in general. Personal property usually consists of small items that belong to a particular person; private property is land that belongs to a particular person or group of people. * personal描述物品、资料等时指这些东西实际上归特定的某个人而非任何其他个人所有。private描述物品时指此物归特定的个人或集体所有，或归他们私用，而非公用。personal property通常指归特定的个人所有的小物件，private property指归特定的个人或群体所有的地产。■ subjective (sometimes disapproving) based on your own ideas and opinions rather than facts and therefore sometimes unfair 主观的；带个人偏见的◆a highly subjective point of view非常主观的看法◆Everyone's opinion is bound to be subjective.每个人的意见都必定是主观的。 OPP objective ⇨ objective ▸ subjectively

adverb

◆People who are less subjectively involved are better judges.主观因素介入愈少，愈能作出恰当的判断。■ exclusive ɪkˈskluːsɪv only to be used by one particular person or group; only given to one particular person or group （个人或集体）专用的，专有的，独占的◆The hotel has exclusive access to the beach.这家旅馆有通向海滩的专用通道。◆exclusive rights to televise the World Cup世界杯赛的独家电视播放权◆His mother has told 'The Times' about his death in an exclusive interview (= not given to any other newspaper).他的母亲在接受《泰晤士报》的独家采访时谈到了他的死。
BNC: 118 COCA: 148

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