- 1斷絕關係、不認（尤其是家人）；對自己該負責的事撇清、不認帳
To disown someone is to say, in a hard and often public way, that they are no longer yours — not your family, not your friend, not your problem. Parents sometimes threaten to disown a child; that means cutting the family tie, at least in words. You can also disown a thing you were responsible for: a statement, a piece of work, a group — that is not mine; I will not stand behind it. It is a strong, rather formal word. Everyday talk might say I want nothing to do with them, or I don’t claim that. Though actually, people use it loosely in anger (“I disown this team”) when they do not mean a real family or legal cut. The old, serious sense is still the family one, and students should feel how heavy that is.
組成dis-（離開、相反）+ own（宣稱「這是我的」）。合起來：不再把某人或某事認作自己的。
同家族的字
- ownto have, or to say “this is mine” — the claim that disown takes back
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disownverb/dɪsˈəʊn/
- 1
To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
- Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.
- Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was.
- 2
To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
- He disowns me, and he scorns me / But when we're alone he tells me I'm his very own
- 3
computingengineeringmathematicsTo detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。