| 单词 | acknowledge |
| 释义 | ac·knowl·edge transitive verb 1. < ends generally acknowledged to be good — T.B.Macaulay > : concede to be real or true < acknowledge that the bombing … was a mistake — Norman Cousins > : admit 2. a. < acknowledge an important contribution to the work > : recognize, honor, or respect especially publicly < acknowledged him first citizen of the town > b. < she acknowledged his greeting by a slight inclination of the head > 3. a. < acknowledge their moral obligation to the people > : express or admit gratitude or obligation for (as a gift, favor, or obligation) < acknowledge his services > b. < acknowledge a gift > < acknowledge receipt of a letter > 4. < acknowledge a deed > intransitive verb < the pilot acknowledged by dipping the plane's wings > Synonyms: < I was still smarting at his too candid criticism, all the more because in my heart I acknowledged its truth — W.H.Hudson > < with a perversity which he acknowledged frankly, he imagined that he had been devoted to her — Jean Stafford > < he started life as the illegitimate son of a Florentine lawyer and a woman of humble origin. His father acknowledged him — Stringfellow Barr > admit may be used in situations involving greater reluctance to make known, disclose, grant, or concede and greater stress or pressure < those in whom reason is weak are often unwilling to admit this as regards themselves, though all admit it in regard to others — Bertrand Russell > < principally because of false pride few people will admit being apprehensive or airsick in flight and except in extreme circumstances these cases usually pass unnoticed — H.G.Armstrong > < at last the government at Washington admitted its mistake — which governments seldom do — Willa Cather > own lacks any special suggestion about the manner or circumstances of an admission or aknowledgment but may apply to admissions having a certain closeness to the personality or individuality of whoever is making them < then let me own I'm an aesthetic sham — W.S.Gilbert > < here we own to a little private preference — Olin Downes > < I own that I had sustained myself through this journey on thoughts of the cheery welcome ahead — Elizabeth Bowen > avow suggests not unwilling disclosure but bold, firm declaration, with willingness to repeat or assert in the face of hostility < in a pamphlet defending his political activity, he avowed beliefs and displayed a fearlessness that were to make him a national figure thirty years later — F.W.Scott > < let me avow at once that I enter this discussion as a layman speaking to laymen — J.S.Dickey > confess may apply to an acknowledgment, often reluctant, of a weakness, failure, omission, guilt, or sin < in his potterings over occultisms he was confessing the sterility of intellectual interests — V.L.Parrington > < must I go on weakly confessing to you things a woman ought to conceal — Thomas Hardy > < I confess myself guilty of this error — J.S.Kenyon > < to confess a crime > |
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