| 词汇 | treachery |
| 释义 | treachery noun[ U ] formaluk /ˈtretʃ.ər.i/ us /ˈtretʃ.ɚ.i/ behaviour that deceives or is not loyal to someone who trusts you: 背叛，背信弃义 From his cell on board ship, the captain wrote about the treachery of his crew.在船上被关押的房间里，船长记录下了船员们的背叛行为。 Disloyalty, betrayal & treason adulterous backstabber betrayal betrayer break ranksidiom chicane 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 unfaithfulness treachery | American Dictionarytreachery noun[ U ] us/ˈtretʃ·ə·ri/ things that are done to deceive someone who trusts you: a play about treachery and betrayal Examples of treacherytreachery Moreover, they have not once been guilty of disobedience and treachery to their master. Although their treachery was irrefutable, the authorities thought it wiser not to prosecute. As a result, the inhabitants of that region are given to trade and treachery. He imagines a critic accusing composers of treachery if they cross certain lines or create something the critic does not understand. Do we not ask ourselves what an objective person might say about our potential treacheries or infidelities and then stop short of acting selfdestructively? The stigma of supposed treachery constantly dogged the resistance fighters after the war. The state authorities responded with brutal force to even ordinary economic demands, which were construed as acts of treachery. Let us see which is the more constant, the treachery of others or my clemency. While the legislation proposed that cowardice be removed from the category of capital offences, desertion was to remain alongside mutiny and treachery. Eastern treachery, on the other hand, is characterised throughout by recitative, the least complex mode of operatic discourse except spoken dialogue. Treachery has flourished greatly in the heart. Then you suddenly seized me by treachery. Kanyok oral traditions contain politically charged narratives about regime change, taxes, treachery, hierarchy, punishment, suffering, vindication and rejection. In doing so, he risked absurd slanders from his fellow countrymen—accusations of softness and even of treachery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That amounts to industrial espionage, industrial sabotage, and, indeed, industrial treachery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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