traduced v. 中伤;诽谤;背叛(traduce 的过去式和过去分词)
- Benjamin: My colleague traduced me behind my back in order to get promoted. What a raw deal!
本杰明:同事为了升职在我背后中伤我。真卑鄙啊! - He was infamously and unfairly traduced in Samuel Eliot Morison's magisterial "The Oxford History of the American People" as a kindly soul in a spineless body.
塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森的权威著作《美国人的牛津历史》无耻中伤麦金利,称他温和驯良、懦弱胆怯。
Traduce \Tra*duce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Traduced}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Traducing}.] [L. traducere, traductum, to lead
across, lead along, exhibit as a spectacle, disgrace,
transfer, derive; trans across, over + ducere to lead: cf. F.
traduire to transfer, translate, arraign, fr. L. traducere.
See {Duke}.]
1. To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce
mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] --Glanvill.
2. To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce
and compose works. [Obs.] --Golden Boke.
3. To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.]
From these only the race of perfect animals were
propagated and traduced over the earth. --Sir M.
Hale.
4. To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.]
I can forget the weakness
Of the traduced soldiers. --Beau. & Fl.
5. To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make
an example of. [Obs.] --Bacon.
6. To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable;
to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by
traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to
bring them into contempt. --Hooker.
He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel.
--Dryden.
Syn: To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract;
depreciate; decry; slander.