betray的意思|betray的解释-里氏词典

betray [bi'trei]

vt. 出卖, 背叛, 辜负, 暴露

[法] 出卖, 背叛, 泄漏

He betrayed his country.
他背叛了他的国家。
The smoke from cooking betrayed the presence of the enemy.
炊烟暴露了敌人的存在。
His accent betrayed the fact that he was foreign.
他的口音显露出他是外国人。

betray

[ verb ]

Betray \Be*tray"\ (b[-e]*tr[=a]"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Betrayed} (-tr[=a]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Betraying}.] [OE.
betraien, bitraien; pref. be- + OF. tra["i]r to betray, F.
trahir, fr. L. tradere. See {Traitor}.]
1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or
fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or
faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.

Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be
betrayed into the hands of men. --Matt. xvii.
22.

2. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one
who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a
person or a cause.

But when I rise, I shall find my legs betraying me.
--Johnson.

3. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or
that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

Willing to serve or betray any government for hire.
--Macaulay.

4. To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would
conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

Be swift to hear, but cautious of your tongue, lest
you betray your ignorance. --T. Watts.

5. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to
lead into error or sin.

Genius . . . often betrays itself into great errors.
--T. Watts.

6. To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise
of marriage) and then abandon.

7. To show or to indicate; -- said of what is not obvious at
first, or would otherwise be concealed.

All the names in the country betray great antiquity.
--Bryant.

However, he has told white voters he will not betray them and has affirmed his commitment to segregated residential areas for whites who want them.
However, de Klerk has told white voters he will not betray them and has affirmed his commitment to segregated residential areas for whites who want them.
All we can ask of anyone is that they not betray that trust." Jackson repeated that he wants neither a job nor a title with the Dukakis operation. "I want to serve, free to serve at my own pace, free to serve, free to challenge," he said.
John Scotney's adaptation is excellent, full of atmosphere and truly lively characters - the ministers Mungo Muirhead and Ebenezer Proudfoot (Robert Trotter and John Shedden) betray a Buchanesque ministerial hatefulness.
ASK leading Japanese manufacturers if they are discouraged by the debate over Maastricht from locating in Britain and some will betray annoyance at the mere suggestion.
The prime minister, in Paris for a 34-nation summit, says she hasn't finished her mission as Britain's longest-serving prime minister of the century, and that Heseltine would betray her free-market economic crusade.
This comes from the Latin tradere (to hand over, deliver, in a sense, to betray) and surfaces in Voltaire's idea of extradition and the English extradite. Ironically, the word contains both safeguard and betrayal: handing on and handing over.
Senior City figures were prepared to talk to her in the knowledge that she would never betray a confidence.
"I can promise you I will never betray you.
O'Rourke feels that writing does not betray one's class, but is a duty, to 'give back' what was given by education.
The case attracted national attention because the driver's attorney, Barry Krischer, steadfastly refused to reveal his client's identity, arguing that to do so would betray a privileged confidence.
Mr Peter Paterna, one of party's leading opponents of 'classical' privatisation, argues that a private Deutsche Telekom will betray the much-vaunted German concept of the Burger Post - the idea of post and telecoms as a utility for all citizens.
Editorials like this betray the hopeless philosophical confusion of endorsing free markets without endorsing freedom.
If only he would give as much attention to drawing as to overall effect, and yet his drawings themselves betray the inadequacy.
Voters betray new resentments toward people outside of their world, such as Japanese and homosexuals.
Her strong features betray the traits of the Greek and Arab craftsmen who, she says, were first brought into the region by the Romans to work the stone. Perceptions of beauty are somewhat different at Carrara town hall, where Alberto Pincione is mayor.
She wouldn't betray herself by a change of physical shape.
"We will not betray the people.
It inhabits the limbo reserved for those more than competent works by future masters which betray too few signs of the mature composer to come.
Her books betray her early interest in animals: Pippi has a horse who lives on the veranda and a monkey named Nilsson who sleeps in the house.
Also today, some reserve soldiers complained to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of their role in the violence, saying they were forced to beat innocent people and betray Israeli values in trying to put down the 13-month Palestinian uprising.

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