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词汇 betrayed
释义 betrayed
past simple and past participle ofbetray
betray
verb[ T ]
uk /bɪˈtreɪ/ us /bɪˈtreɪ/

betrayverb[T] (NOT LOYAL)


B2
to not be loyal to your country or a person, often by doing something harmful such as helping their enemies: 背叛,出卖;对…不忠诚
He was accused of betraying his country during the war.他被指控在战争期间背叛了祖国。
She felt betrayed by her mother's lack of support.她觉得母亲背弃了她,因为母亲没有支持她。
For years they betrayed the UK's secrets to Russia.他们多年向俄国出卖英国的机密情报。
formalHe promised never to betray his wife (= never to leave her for another person).他承诺永不抛弃自己的妻子。
formal
If someone betrays something such as a promise, they do not do what they promised: 食言;辜负
The president has been accused of betraying his election promises.总统因未能履行竞选诺言而遭到人们的谴责。
betray someone's trustBy staying out so late, they have betrayed my trust (= disappointed me because I had trusted them not to).他们在外面呆到这么晚才回来,真是辜负了我的信任。
Vargas plays the part of treacherous aristocrat who betrays his king and country.
Didn't he feel guilty about betraying his fellow countrymen and women?背叛了自己的同胞,难道他不感到愧疚吗?
I trusted him and he betrayed me.
After a bitter ten-year campaign, William Wallace was betrayed and executed in London in 1305.
At the height of Stalin's rule, children were encouraged to betray their parents.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disloyalty, betrayal & treason
adulterous
backstabber
betrayal
betrayer
break ranksidiom
deserter
desertion
faithless
faithlessly
faithlessness
false
fifth column
sellout
stab someone in the backidiom
tergiversation
throw someone to the lionsidiom
throw someone under the busidiom
treasonable
unfaithful
unfaithfulness

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Making & breaking promises & commitments

betrayverb[T] (SHOW)


to show feelings, thoughts, or a particular characteristic without intending to: 暴露(想法);流露(情感)
If he is nervous on stage, he does not betray it.他即使在舞台上十分紧张,也不会表露出来。
Although she often seems quite cold, her smiling eyes betray her true nature.虽然看上去总是很冷漠,但她微笑的双眼却显示出了真性情。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Showing and demonstrating
act out
attest
bespeak
breastbeating
bring
indicate
mark something out
masterclass
ostensive
ostensively
outlet
point (something/someone) out
reflect
reveal
trace
unproved
unproven
unveil
unwrap
vent

Examples of betrayed


betrayed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Even within the spiritualist community the ambivalence that attached to materialization betrayed the emotional and epistemological strain of the practice.
You betrayed the trust we placed in you when you came and built your churches, when you started to convert.
Colonial efforts to ensure the loyalty of politically powerful askaris betrayed a similar message regarding martial identity.
No one betrayed the secret, no one turned informant; solidarity triumphed over totalitarian authority.
They, at best, are being short-changed, at worst betrayed.
Their writings inevitably betrayed the particular bias of a professional 'middle class'.
His comments betrayed two common suspicions musicians have about music criticism: that it tends to be (1) self-important and (2) uninformed.
We know little, for example, about the process by which individual artists are thought to have betrayed their convictions.
A first step, then, in addressing this dilemma was to recognize that my initial response betrayed unarticulated assumptions that needed further exploration.
They also feel betrayed by their own leaders and intellectuals.
I shall discuss some examples of neural models being betrayed by a messier physiological reality.
Humanistic concepts of a rounded education have been betrayed by marketing managers.
The very nation he had served now betrayed him; he wavered between revenge, abdication and denial.
Now this betrayed and illiterate woman wanted revenge.
They feel betrayed by the lure of organizational opportunities, which seem to have stunted, rather than supported, their objectives.
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