traitor: [13] Traitor and tradition [14] come from the same ultimate source: Latin trādere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix trāns- ‘across’ and dare ‘give’ (source of English data, date, etc). It originally meant ‘hand over, deliver’, and it is this sense that (via the derivative trāditiō) has given English tradition – etymologically something ‘handed over’ to succeeding generations. But it was also used metaphorically for ‘betray’, and this meaning has passed through into English in betray, traitor, and treason. => betray, tradition, traitor, treason
traitor (n.)
c. 1200, "one who betrays a trust or duty," from Old French traitor, traitre "traitor, villain, deceiver" (11c., Modern French traître), from Latin traditor "betrayer," literally "one who delivers," agent noun from stem of tradere "deliver, surrender" (see tradition). Originally usually with a suggestion of Judas Iscariot; especially of one false to his allegiance to a sovereign, government, or cause from late 15c.
雙語例句
1. They called him a traitor to his Afrikaner people.
他們稱他背叛了自己的族人南非白人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. "Traitor!" she screamed. "Betrayer of England!"
“叛徒！”她尖叫道。“英格蘭的叛徒！”
來自柯林斯例句
3. He was arraigned for criminally abetting a traitor.
他因慫恿他人叛國而受到傳訊。
來自柯林斯例句
4. He was seen as a traitor to the socialist cause.
他被視為社會主義事業的叛徒。
來自《權威詞典》
5. The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.