betray
vt. 出卖, 背叛, 辜负, 暴露 [法] 出卖, 背叛, 泄漏
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教材释义与例句
背叛；出卖；泄露（秘密）；露出…迹象
to be disloyal to someone who trusts you, so that they are harmed or upset
He felt that she had betrayed him.
他感觉她背叛了自己。
She had betrayed her parents' trust .
她辜负了父母对她的信任。
I would never betray a confidence (= tell a secret that someone has trusted me with ) .
我永远不会泄露秘密。
释义与例句
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1.
To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.
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出卖
及物An officer betrayed the city.
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2.
To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
背叛
及物to betray a person or a cause
Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.
My eyes have been betraying me since I turned sixty.
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3.
To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
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4.
To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.
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5.
To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
及物Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.
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6.
To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.
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7.
To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
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词源
From Middle English betrayen, bitrayen (“to commit an act of treason against”), equivalent to be- + tray (“to betray”). further etymology information Middle English bi- is from Old English be- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”), from Proto-Germanic *bi (“near, by”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi (“at, near”). Compare also traitor, treason, tradition. The modern sense “to disclose, discover, reveal unintentionally” is due to influence from or merger with English bewray (“to reveal, divulge”), which is similar in sound and meaning. The similarity with German betrügen, Dutch bedriegen, from Proto-West Germanic *bidreugan (“to betray, deceive”), is coincidental.
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