treason: [13] Treason and tradition are doublets – they have a common source. This was Latin trāditiō, a derivative of trādere ‘hand over, deliver’ (source also of English traitor). The notion of ‘handing something on to someone else’ lies behind tradition, but treason (acquired via Anglo-Norman treisoun) gets its meaning from the metaphorically extended Latin sense ‘hand over treacherously, betray’. => betray, tradition, traitor
treason (n.)
c. 1200, "betraying; betrayal of trust; breech of faith," from Anglo-French treson, from Old French traison "treason, treachery" (11c.; Modern French trahison), from Latin traditionem (nominative traditio) "a handing over, delivery, surrender" (see tradition). Old French form influenced by the verb trair "betray." In old English law, high treason is violation by a subject of his allegiance to his sovereign or to the state; distinguished from petit treason, treason against a subject, such as murder of a master by his servant. Constructive treason was a judicial fiction whereby actions carried out without treasonable intent, but found to have the effect of treason, were punished as though they were treason itself. The protection against this accounts for the careful wording of the definition of treason in the U.S. Constitution.
雙語例句
1. Treason in this country is still punishable by death.
在這個國家，叛國仍然是可判死罪的。
來自柯林斯例句
2. They were shot yesterday after being convicted of mutiny and high treason.
在被宣判犯有叛亂罪和叛國罪後，他們昨天被槍決了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He was executed for treason.
他因叛國罪被處死。
來自《權威詞典》
4. The public prosecutor charged treason against the prisoner.