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.
双语例句
1. They called him a traitor to his Afrikaner people.
他们称他背叛了自己的族人南非白人。
来自柯林斯例句
2. "Traitor!" she screamed. "Betrayer of England!"
“叛徒！”她尖叫道。“英格兰的叛徒！”
来自柯林斯例句
3. He was arraigned for criminally abetting a traitor.
他因怂恿他人叛国而受到传讯。
来自柯林斯例句
4. He was seen as a traitor to the socialist cause.
他被视为社会主义事业的叛徒。
来自《权威词典》
5. The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.
