Treason
['triːz(ə)n] or ['trizn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a crime that undermines the offender's government.
(noun.) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior.
安尼塔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
(n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.
校對:贾斯廷
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Treachery (to a sovereign or a government), disloyalty, LEZE-MAJESTY, breach of allegiance.
整理:纳特
解釋/意思:
n. betraying of the government or an attempt to overthrow it: treachery; disloyalty.—adj. Trea′sonable pertaining to consisting of or involving treason.—n. Trea′sonableness.—adv. Trea′sonably.—adj. Trea′sonous.—Treason felony the crime of desiring to depose the sovereign intimidate parliament stir up a foreign invasion &c.—declared by statute in 1848.—Constructive treason anything which may be interpreted as equivalent to actual treason by leading naturally to it; High treason offences against the state; Misprision of treason knowledge of the principal crime and concealment thereof; Petty treason the murder of a husband by a wife a master by a servant &c.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him, if he loiters here to hatch treason among my domestics! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Treason in the executive branch of the government was estopped. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It seized Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and charged him with treason. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In such minds, disregard of religion is a more fearful treason,--a more deadly sin. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He paid me a flying visit and seemed as much agitated as though he were about to be tried for high treason. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The Treason case. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He knew there would be people clamoring for the punishment of the ex-Confederate president, for high treason. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A Knight stepped forward from the King's attendants, and, laying his hand on the shoulder of Albert de Malvoisin, said, I arrest thee of High Treason. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- That's treason, Tenente, Bonello said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Political discussion would have been treason to the emperor, social or economic inquiry would have threatened the rich. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We answer strikes with bayonets, and make treason one of the rights of man. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Caligula valued himself for being a notable dancer; and to deny that he excelled in that manly accomplishment was high treason. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Then follow informations and convictions for treason. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This puts one in mind of a king arrainged for high-treason against his subjects. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- By such treasons against their subjects, empires destroy themselves. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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