left on ... own• I did not want to be left on my own.• Ipswich could have fallen furtherbehind 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 woundssuffered in the CivilWar, 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.
4for your own good/safety/benefit etcif 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 financialindependence and will never take advantage or misuse your money for his own good.• IntelligentBuildings Too smartfor 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 sharplookout in such congested waters for their own safety.• Often one step too many for his own good.• We got too famousfor our own good.• You might be just a wee bit too cleverfor your own good now.
5too nice/clever etc for your own goodused 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。
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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 weebittoo clever for your own good now.
6get 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。
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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.
7be your own man/womanINDEPENDENT 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。
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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 lackedtalent 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.• Sheilais very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
8make something your ownto 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
Great singers can take an old song and make it their own.
优秀的歌手能够把一首老歌唱得像是自己的歌一样。
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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 owncastlenear Cockenzie, with his terriblenews.• The shape it made created its own following silence, and they sat, both in the ease of it.• The exquisitecreation 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 ownskills to gainaccess to a group.• Her sinceritymade me doubt my ownversion of events.
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。
nGrammar
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:
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 falseimpression 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 absoluteassumption that this mess was not only their own fault but something to be ashamed of.
own2 ●●●S2W2 verb [transitiveT]
1OWNto 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
The building is owned by the local council.
这幢大楼归地方议会所有。
You need to get permission from the farmer who owns the land.
你要得到拥有这块土地的农场主同意。
Many more people now own their own homes.
现在更多的人拥有了自己的住房。
the cost of owning a car
养车的开销
publicly/privately ownedBritish EnglishBrE (=belonging to the government or a private organization) 公有的/私有的
a privately owned company
私营公司
2as if/as though/like you own the placeinformalCONFIDENT 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〕
She acts like she owns the place!
她表现得就好像这里是她的!
They walked in as if they owned the place.
他们走进来就跟他们是这里的主人似的。
3old-fashionedTRUE to admit that something is true 承认
own (that)
I own that I judged her harshly at first.
我承认原先我对她的评价很苛刻。
own to
I must own to a feeling of anxiety.
我得承认我有焦虑感。
n4informal to defeat someone very easily or by a large amount
Our team totally owned them!
5own upphrasal verbphr vADMITto admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not serious 承认〔犯错误,尤指小错〕
Come on, own up. Who broke it?
快点,说出来,是谁把它打碎的?
own up to (doing) something
No one owned up to breaking the window.
没人承认打破了窗子。
He was too frightened to own up to his mistake.
他吓得不敢认错。
He still wouldn’t own up to the fact that he’d lied.
他还是不肯承认自己说谎了。
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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 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〕