fess up

美 [fes ʌp]英 [fes ʌp]
  • n.承认
fess upfess up

verb

1
admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error
the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting
Synonym: make a clean breast of own up

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  1. Won 't fess up to being even vaguely liberal ( Jonathan Alter )

    不会老实地承认即使是暧昧的公平(乔纳森奥尔特)

  2. The question is will the Yankee 's Alex Rodriguez fess up or keep fighting .

    问题是洋基队的亚历克斯·罗德里格斯承认还是坚持斗争。

  3. LL : To fess up is to confess or admit something .

    原来,fessup就是承认,坦白的意思。好吧!

  4. Sometimes I have an irresistible urge to fess up about my feelings .

    (有些时候,我感到一种不可抗拒的冲动想表明我的情感。)

  5. OK , fess up : how many of you think it 's sexy when your partner does housework ?

    说说看:你们中会有多少人在看见你的伴侣做家务时觉得他们性感?

  6. Lenders must fess up to property exposures using realistic valuations , and use any loss to inform a more credible recapitalisation .

    各银行必须使用现实的估值老实交代各自的房贷敞口,并利用任何亏损为更加可信的资产重组提供依据。

  7. Fess up , fellows : The masters of the universe have turned out to be masters of disaster .

    大伙儿说实话吧,男人自以为是宇宙的主宰,结果却成了灾难的源头。

  8. She believes that other business graduates would fess up to the same conclusion , if not for the fact that their views would endanger their careers .

    她认为,如果不是出于表露反对立场会危及职业发展这个现实,其他商学院的毕业生也会坦率地表达与自己相同的结论。

  9. Or fess up and find out immediately what repercussions are headed your way for the screw-up so youre not worried about the unknowns .

    或者坦白并立即寻找搞砸会有什么后果,这样就不用为未知担心。

  10. Referring to the hundreds of thousands of air miles travelled by climate scientists going to and from professional meetings , however , he adds that we all have to ' fess up to the fact that we 're deeply hypocritical and contradictory beings .

    然而他补充称:我们都不得不承认,我们是一群严重伪善且矛盾的人。他指的是气候学家参加各种专业会议而飞行的数十万航空里程。