发音：[dɪsəˈvaʊ]
例句：
- To disavow is to to refuse to acknowledge or accept something.
- If you disavow the actions of your subordinates, you deny what they do.
- The company disavowed the memo, believing its assumptions are incorrect.
- He disavowed his wife’s posts late Wednesday night, saying the “views are not ones that I share and are not tolerated in my family.”
- Like other social media companies, Twitter considers itself a conduit for its users but disavows responsibility for the contents of the 400 million comments posted daily.
- He disavowed the hateful messages attributed to him and said he plans to consult with attorneys about his firing and the social media account.
解释：
- Disavow这个单词为动词，其表示“to refuse to acknowledge or accept”这一含义，即“否定/不承认/拒绝对…承担责任”，与deny/disclaim/contradict等单词构成近义词。实际使用过程中，我们可以讲“disavow sth or sb.”
- 具体使用场景如下：
- She now seems to be trying to disavow her earlier statements.（她看起来是要否定自己早先的声明。）
—News - The Prime Minister would never have had the courage to disavow his colleague openly.（首相永远不会有勇气公开否认他的同事。）
—Politics - I did find it surprising that Paramount Pictures, which will release the film, disavowed any participation in the initiative, and even declined to be interviewed for the Times piece.（我确实感到很惊讶，将发行这部电影的派拉蒙影业否认参与该计划，甚至拒绝接受《纽约时报》的采访。）
—News - Rather than disavowing those with whom we disagree, this line of reasoning goes, we must understand them, and see the humanity in their anxieties about the economy or immigration or Black Lives Matter or ISIS.（与其否认那些我们不同意的人，我们必须理解他们，并在他们对经济、移民、黑人的命也是命或伊斯兰国的焦虑中看到人性。）
—Culture
