喜樂美語

核心畫面

Handing over what was meant to stay safe with you. Someone leaves something in your keeping — a secret, a promise, their trust — and instead of holding it, you let it out to the other side. The damage always comes from the inside, from the person who was trusted.

有人把東西交到你手上保管，而你把它遞了出去。那個東西可能是一個祕密、一個承諾、或單純就是「相信你」這件事；重點是它本…更多收起有人把東西交到你手上保管，而你把它遞了出去。那個東西可能是一個祕密、一個承諾、或單純就是「相信你」這件事；重點是它本來安放在你這裡，是你把它放走的。所以 betray 的傷害永遠來自內部——來自被信任的那個人，這是它跟 attack、cheat 最不一樣的地方：敵人不能背叛你，只有被你當自己人的人才能。也因為核心比較像「本來該守住的東西跑出去了」，這個字後來還能用在完全沒有惡意的情況：你的表情、你的手，也會在你不想讓人知道的時候，把你的心情遞出去。

Two branches

對人與群體的背叛

這一支是核心本身：被託付的人主動把信任交了出去，差別只在對象是一個人、一個國家，還是一組價值。

turn against someone who trusts you · verb · B2

To hurt or upset someone who trusts you by turning against them — for example by telling their secret, breaking a promise to them, or giving them away to other people.

背叛；辜負

無意間洩漏

還是「本來該守住的東西跑了出去」，但少了惡意也少了選擇——洩密的是你自己身上不聽話的部分，或某個不小心留下的小痕跡。

show a feeling despite trying to hide it · verb · B2

If your voice, face, hands, or eyes betray a feeling, they show that feeling to other people even though you are trying to hide it.

洩露（情緒）

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

betrayverb/bɪˈtɹeɪ/

  • 1

    To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly.

    • An officer betrayed the city.
    • He betrayed his own sister to the secret police.
  • 2

    To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.

    • to betray a person or a cause
    • Quresh betrayed Sunil to marry Nuzhat.
  • 3

    To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.

  • 4

    To disclose (a secret, etc.) in deliberate violation of someone’s confidence.

    • The dead leap at the throat, destroy The meaning of the day; dark forms Have scaled your walls, and spies betray Old secrets to amorphous swarms.
  • 5

    To disclose or indicate, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.

    • Though he had lived in England for many years, a faint accent betrayed his Swedish origin.
    • Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast [Josh] Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
  • 6

    To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen; to lead into error or sin.

  • 7

    To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。