own的过去式是：owned。own的例句是用作形容词(adj.)But I can't hold on to my own principles, either.但是,我也没有能够坚持自己的主张。own的意思是adj.自己的；特有的；n.自己的东西；v.承认；拥有。
一、详尽释义点此查看own的详细内容
二、词典解释
1.自己的；属于自己的
You useown to indicate that something belongs to a particular person or thing.
own的翻译
e.g. My wife decided I should have myown shop...
我妻子决定让我自己开店。
e.g. ...another group of patients who were taught to change theirown dressings...
另一组被教会自己换药的病人
2.自己所用的；具有自己特点的；特有的
You useown to indicate that something is used by, or is characteristic of, only one person, thing, or group.
e.g. Jennifer insisted on herown room...
珍妮弗坚持要有自己的房间。
e.g. I let her tell me about it in herown way...
我让她用自己的方式告诉我那件事。
3.自己做的；单独干的；独立完成的
You useown to indicate that someone does something without any help from other people.
e.g. They enjoy making theirown decisions...
他们喜欢自己作决定。
e.g. Tony also built hisown house from hisown plans...
托尼还自己设计并盖好了房子。
4.有；拥有
If youown something, it is your property.
e.g. His father owns a local pub...
他父亲在当地有一家酒馆。
e.g. At least three British golf courses are now owned by the Japanese.
现在英国至少有3家高尔夫球场为日本人所有。
5.为自己所有
If you have something you cancall yourown, it belongs only to you, rather than being controlled by or shared with someone else.
e.g. They don't yet have a country to call theirown...
他们还没有自己的国家。
e.g. I would like a place I could call myown.
我想要一个自己的窝儿。
6.（因情况适宜而）开始取得成功，开始进入（良好）状态
If someone or somethingcomes into theirown, they become very successful or start to perform very well because the circumstances are right.
e.g. The goalkeeper came into hisown with a series of brilliant saves...
守门员开始进入状态，作出了一连串精彩的扑救。
e.g. This is when geraniums and petunias come into theirown.
这是天竺葵和矮牵牛盛开的时节。
7.报复
If youget yourown back on someone, you have your revenge on them because of something bad that they have done to you.
e.g. Renshaw reveals 20 bizarre ways in which women have got theirown back on former loved ones.
伦肖揭示了20种女性用来报复旧情人的离奇手段。
8.使只与自己相关；使为自己所有
If youmake something yourown, you become involved in it in such a way that people think of it as being related only to you or belonging only to you, rather than to anyone else.
e.g. Here again is the song that Pavarotti has made hisown.
下面再次为您播放这首帕瓦罗蒂的标志性歌曲。
9.属于自己的；关于自己的
If you say that someone has a particular thingof theirown, you mean that that thing belongs or relates to them, rather than to other people.
e.g. You see, we have a problem of ourown...
你知道，我们也有自己的问题。
e.g. He set out in search of ideas for starting a company of hisown.
他开始寻求思路创办自己的公司。
10.特有的；独有的
If someone or something has a particular quality or characteristicof theirown, that quality or characteristic is especially theirs, rather than being shared by other things or people of that type.
e.g. Groups have a personality of theirown...
每支乐队都有自己独特的风格。
e.g. The cries of the seagulls gave this part of the harbour a fascinating character all of itsown.
海鸥的鸣叫声给这片海港带来了迷人的独特气息。
11.单独地；独自地
When you areon yourown, you are alone.
e.g. He lives on hisown...
他独自一人生活。
e.g. I told him how scared I was of being on myown...
我告诉他我有多害怕自己一个人。
12.独立地；依靠自己地
If you do somethingon yourown, you do it without any help from other people.
e.g. I work best on myown.
我独立工作的时候效果最好。
e.g. ...the jobs your child can do on herown.
孩子能独立完成的事情
13.傲慢；目中无人；颐指气使
If you say that someone does somethingas if theyown the place orlike theyown the place, you are critical of them because they do it in a very arrogant way.
own
e.g. He struts around town like he owns the place.
他大摇大摆地在镇上四处晃悠，好像这是他的地盘。
14. to hold yourown -> see hold
相关词组：own up
三、网络解释
1. 所有：在英国特殊历史时期,除国王以外的人,拥有土地被认为是持有(hold)土地,而不是所有(own)土地;土地享有者,均是持有者,而不是所有者. 由于这一特殊历史背景,英美法创造了一个抽象的地产概念,即estate. Estate 表示对土地的某种权利.
四、例句
But I can't hold on to my own principles, either.
但是,我也没有能够坚持自己的主张。
The writer has his own brand of humour.
这位作家有他独特的幽默感。
Children need toys of their own.
儿童需要有自己的玩具。
He owns he was wrong.
他承认他错了。
Nobody owned up to the theft.
这件偷窃事没有人承认是自己干的。
He would not own to knowing those persons.
他不愿承认认识那些人。
Do you own the house or are you a tenant?
你是拥有这幢房子还是租住的?
Someday, I will own a shop like this.
有一天,我自己将会拥有一间像这样的店。
五、词汇搭配
六、经典引文
Each should..have an own name.
出自：W. D. WhitneyThe cottage..had been built..by the occupier's own hands.
出自：T. HardyEach social class has its own sort of suffering.
出自：E. TempletonShe wants her own Christmas tree ornaments..not her mother's.
出自：J. D. SalingerWe picked her up..in a borrowed car, as we didn't own one.
出自：N. SedakaHe owned no property and lived by his labour.
出自：A. Sillitoe七、常见错误
误 He owned to be defeated.
正 He owned to being defeated.
正 He owns to having been defeated.
析 own很少接to- v ,但own可接to v -ing ,含义是“承认已…”。
他拥有这幢房子及其周围的土地。误 He owns to this house and the land surrounding it.
正 He owns this house and the land surrounding it.
析 own作“拥有”解时是及物动词,不必再加to或其他介词。
own的相关近义词
conduct、control、have、hold、keep、manage、possess、retain
own的相关临近词
owner、owl、Owne、owned、own up、own to、ownness、own core、own hair、own ship、own risk、ownguard