disavow v. [dis-uh-VOW]
否认；不赞成
Definition
1: to deny responsibility for: repudiate
1：否则对...的责任：拒绝，拒付，断绝，否则
2: to refuse to acknowledge or accept: disclaim
2：拒绝承认或接收：放弃，弃权，拒绝
Did You Know?
If you trace the etymology of disavow back through Middle English to Anglo-French, you'll arrive eventually at the prefix des- and the verb avouer, meaning "to avow." The prefix des-, in turn, derives from the Latin prefix dis-, meaning "apart." That Latin prefix plays a signficant role in many current English words, including disadvantage, disappoint, and disagree. Avouer is from Latin advocare, meaning "to summon," and is also the source of our word advocate.
词源/词根演化：
dis- ("apart") --> des- ("apart") ----\
|---> desavow
advocare("to summon") --> avouer ("to summon") ----/
disavow的词源可以从中古英语回溯到Anglo-French，最终能解析出前缀des-与动词avouer（"to avow"，宣称）。前缀des-是拉丁前缀dis-的变体，意思是“分离，脱离”。dis-这个前缀在许多英语单词里大放异彩，例如disadvantage (不利), disappoint (失望)，与disagree（不同意）。avouer来自于拉丁advocare，意思是“召集，召唤”，也是英语单词advocate（提倡，倡导）的来源。
注：avow：承认，公开宣称声明；summon：召唤，召集，振奋
Examples
- It seems the college's president is now trying to disavow her previous statements.
学院主席似乎正在努力决绝承认她先前的声明。 - "Last week in Beijing, ['Crazy Rich Asians'] director Jon M. Chu essentially disavowed every word in the film's title. "The film is satire,' Chu told the state-affiliated Global Times. "it's not about "crazy rich" or "Asians" actually - it's about the opposite of that. It's about how all those things mean nothing and it comes down to our own relationshps and finding love and our own families.'"
--- Rececca Davis, Variety, 29 Nov. 2018
上周在北京，电影Crazy Rich Asians的导演Jon M. Chu基本上否定了这个电影名字中的每一个字。“这个电影是讽刺性的”，Chu告诉国有环球时报的记者，“它不是关于“疯狂的富人”或者“亚洲人”，事实上 --- 恰恰相反，那些事情无关紧要，电影讲述的是关于我们的亲情，爱情与家人的故事。”
注：state-affiliated：国企；Global Times：环球时报
Crazy Rich Asians is a 2018 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jon M. Chu