betray

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly. transitive
    — An officer betrayed the city.
  2. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive. transitive
    — to betray a person or a cause
  3. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known. transitive
  4. To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence. transitive
    — The dead leap at the throat, destroy The meaning of the day; dark forms Have scaled your walls, and spies betray Old secrets to amorphous swarms.
  5. To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally. transitive
    — Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.
  6. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin. transitive
  7. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon. transitive

词形变化

betrays present,singular,third-person betraying participle,present betrayed participle,past betrayed past

词汇关系

近义词
assfuck betray burn cop out cross out cross up double-cross do someone dirty do the dirty on false go back on knife let down play someone false quisle renegade sell sell the pass sell down the river sell down sell out stab in the back swike traitorize turncoat
反义词
keep faith
下位词
eat one's young collaborate jilt backdoor rat out give away kiss and tell leak falsify forswear perjure manswear misswear apostatize defect turn one's coat break a promise break one's promise break one's word
衍生词
betrayable betrayal betrayee betrayer betrayment betray with a kiss rebetray unbetray
相关词
throw to the wolves throw under the bus betrayer deceive

词源

From Middle English betrayen, bitrayen (“to commit an act of treason against”), equivalent to be- + tray (“to betray”).
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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