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单词 betrayal
释义
betrayal
noun[CorU]
us
uk
/bɪˈtreɪ.əl/
anactofbetrayingsomeone or something, or thefactof someone or something beingbetrayed:
（被）背叛的行为；（被）出卖的行为
This was the first in aseriesof betrayals.这是一系列背叛事件中的第一件。
Ifeltasenseof betrayal when myfriendsrefusedtosupportme.当朋友们拒绝支持我的时候，我有一种被出卖的感觉。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disloyalty, betrayal & treason
  • adulterous
  • backstabber
  • betrayer
  • break ranksidiom
  • chicane
  • collaborate
  • deserter
  • desertion
  • faithlessly
  • faithlessness
  • false
  • fifth column
  • fifth-columnist
  • sellout
  • stabsomeonein the backidiom
  • tergiversation
  • throwsomeoneto the lionsidiom
  • throwsomeoneunder the busidiom
  • treacherous
  • treasonable
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(Definition ofbetrayalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

betrayal| American Dictionary

betrayal
noun[C/U]
us
/bɪˈtreɪ·əl/
theactof not beingloyalwhen otherpeoplebelieveyou areloyal:
[U]Ifeltasenseof betrayal when myfriendsrefusedtolendmemoney.
(Definition ofbetrayalfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Legalistic proportionality, political consensus, personalbetrayal, cultural balkanization, and social hierarchy are underlying themes of both books.
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The constant risk ofbetrayalmeant isolating themselves from encounters with civilians other than carefully arranged meetings.
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Today this act is remembered as a 'betrayal' that called into question the legitimacy of the matrilineal system of labor and inheritance.
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Within this context of seeking and receiving professional services we can formalize the distinction between genuine and merely "felt" betrayals.
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His anger imparted his acute sense ofbetrayaland the necessity of vindicating his maturity.
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Of course, these violations of basic principles can be seen as betrayals of communist ideals.
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The outer body can be interpreted as abetrayalof the youthfulness of the inner self.
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This startling finding was immediately broadcast over loudspeakers and incited mixed feelings ofbetrayaland fury among the protesters.
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Over time, they were unable to avoid widespread accusations of treachery andbetrayal, and this wore them down.
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It isn't the human weakness of his love orbetrayalof it that has so powerful an effect on him, though this is potent.
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Moreover, this could count as a genuinebetrayalinsofar as attention to sustaining the capacity to trust is absent.
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Hence, it was not a case of abandonment and, therefore, notbetrayal.
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It offers to diminish the force of the dilemma of submission orbetrayal.
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The boasts are carried in the language of forefathers: they "liefer had died" than contemplatebetrayaland change.
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Or, to express it another way, any generation that hands on less than it inherited is guilty ofbetrayal.
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