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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，屬於自己的
Bring your own equipment.
帶上你自己的裝備。
Every dance has its own rhythm.
每一種舞蹈都有自己的節奏。
The yacht was intended for the King’s own personal use.
這艘遊艇是專供國王私用的。
His face was only a few inches from her own.
他的臉離她自己的臉非常近。
of your own
We have problems of our own.
我們也有自己的困難。
I’d like to have a place of my own (=my own home).
我想有個屬於自己的地方。
your very own (=used to add more emphasis) 完全屬於自己的〔用於強調〕
One day I want to have a horse of my very own.
總有一天我要有一匹完全屬於我自己的馬。
something to call your own/which you can call your own (=something that belongs to you) 屬於自己的東西
She just wanted a place to call her own.
她只是想要個屬於她自己的地方。
2  INDEPENDENT PERSONHELPused to emphasize that someone did or made something without the help or involvement of anyone else 自己的〔強調沒有别人的幫助或介入〕
She makes a lot of her own clothes.
她許多衣服都自己做。
We encourage students to develop their own ideas.
我們鼓勵學生要有自己的想法。
It’s your own fault for leaving the window open.
是你自己不好，沒把窗戶關上。
3  (all) on your own 
a) ALONEalone 單獨地，獨自地
I’ve been living on my own for four years now.
我已經獨自生活了四年。
He didn’t want to be left on his own.
他不想被獨自留下。
b) HELPwithout anyone’s help 無援地，獨立地
You can’t expect him to do it all on his own.
你不能指望全部由他一個人來做。
I can manage on my own, thanks.
我自己能行，謝謝。
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 爲你自己的好處/安全/利益等
I’m only telling you this for your own good.
我是爲了你好才告訴你這些的。
He was kept away from the other prisoners for his own safety.
把他和其他囚犯隔離開來是爲了他的安全。
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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 過分好/聰明等對你沒好處
Stephen can be too generous for his own good.
斯蒂芬有時慷慨過頭，反而對自己不好。
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 (對某人)報複，(向某人)複仇 → revenge
She wanted to get her own back on Liz for ruining her party.
她要報複利茲毀了她的派對。
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，有主見
Hilary’s very much her own woman.
希拉麗是個非常有主見的女人。
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 使某物變得像自己的
Great singers can take an old song and make it their own.
優秀的歌手能夠把一首老歌唱得像是自己的歌一樣。
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 語法
Use own only after possessive words such as ‘my’, ‘John’s’, ‘the company’s’ etc. own僅用於my, John’s, the company’s等所有格形式之後
Few of them got back to their own country (NOT 不說 the own country).
他們中很少有人返回祖國。
Do not say ‘an own car/room/computer etc’. Say a car/room/computer etc of your own 不要說 ‘an own car/room/computer etc’. 而要說 a car/room/computer etc of your own
He soon had enough money to buy a truck of his own.
很快他就有錢買了一輛屬於自己的卡車。
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 〔尤指通過購買、接受贈與等而合法地〕擁有〔某物〕 → possess
The building is owned by the local council.
這幢大樓歸地方議會所有。
You need to get permission from the farmer who owns the land.
你要得到擁有這塊土地的農場主同意。
Many more people now own their own homes.
現在更多的人擁有了自己的住房。
the cost of owning a car
養車的開銷
publicly/privately owned British EnglishBrE (=belonging to the government or a private organization) 公有的/私有的
a privately owned company
私營公司
2  as if/as though/like you own the place informalCONFIDENT to behave in a way that is too confident and upsets other people 就像是這裏的主人似的〔指表現過於大模大樣而令他人不快〕
She acts like she owns the place!
她表現得就好像這裏是她的！
They walked in as if they owned the place.
他們走進來就跟他們是這裏的主人似的。
3  old-fashionedTRUE to admit that something is true 承認
own (that)
I own that I judged her harshly at first.
我承認原先我對她的評價很苛刻。
own to
I must own to a feeling of anxiety.
我得承認我有焦慮感。
n4  informal to defeat someone very easily or by a large amount
Our team totally owned them!
5 own up phrasal verbphr v ADMITto admit that you have done something wrong, especially something that is not serious 承認〔犯錯誤，尤指小錯〕
Come on, own up. Who broke it?
快點，說出來，是誰把它打碎的？
own up to (doing) something
No one owned up to breaking the window.
沒人承認打破了窗子。
He was too frightened to own up to his mistake.
他嚇得不敢認錯。
He still wouldn’t own up to the fact that he’d lied.
他還是不肯承認自己說謊了。
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〕擁有
They live in a flat but they don’t own it.
他們住在一套公寓裏，但不是業主。
The land is owned by farmers.
這片土地歸農場主所有。
a privately owned plane
私人飛機
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 擁有〔側重於使用權而非擁有權〕
How many students have a cell phone?
多少學生有手機？
I wish I had a sports car.
真希望我有一輛跑車。
possess [not in passive] formal to own something 擁有
It is illegal to possess a firearm in Britain.
在英國擁有槍支是非法的。
I don’t even possess a smart suit!
我連一身漂亮套裝都沒有！
belong to somebody/something [not in passive] if something belongs to you, you own it 屬於某人/某物
The ring belonged to my grandmother.
這枚戒指是我祖母的。
hold to own shares in a company 擁有〔公司股份〕
One man holds a third of the company’s shares.
有個人擁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 爲某人/某物所有〔書寫於指示牌、標簽上等〕
This camera is the property of the BBC.
這台攝影機爲英國廣播公司所有。
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”

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