• vt. 背叛；出賣；泄露（秘密）；露出…跡象

前綴be-, 強調。-tray, 背叛，同traitor, 來自拉丁詞tradare, 前綴tra, 轉，詞根don, 給予。

betray

betray: [13] Betray is an English formation based on the Old French verb tra?r ‘betray’, which came from Latin tradere ‘hand over, deliver up’ (originally a compound formed from trans- ‘across’ and dāre ‘give’). The noun formed from tradere was trāditiō, from which English gets, directly, tradition, and indirectly, via Old French and Anglo-Norman, the appropriate treason.
=> tradition, treason

betray (v.)

late 13c., bitrayen "mislead, deceive, betray," from be- + obsolete Middle English tray, from Old French traine "betrayal, deception, deceit," from trair (Modern French trahir) "betray, deceive," from Latin tradere "hand over," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + dare "to give" (see date (n.1)). Related: Betrayed; betraying.

1. Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

我實在告訴你們，你們中間有一個人要賣我了。

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2. She pursed her lips together, as though fearing to betray her news.

她閉緊雙唇，仿佛害怕透露出她的消息。

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3. They offered me money if I would betray my associates.

他們提出來只要我供出同伙就給我錢。

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4. Although I didn't betray a trust, I feel I behaved shabbily.

盡管我沒有辜負別人的托付,卻感到自己行為齷齪.

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5. We betray the ideals of our country when we support capital punishment.

如果我們支持死刑，那就背棄了我們立國的理念。

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