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If you call someone a Judas, you mean they were not loyal to a friend — they sold that friend out. The name comes from Judas Iscariot in the Christian story, the disciple who handed Jesus over. Used this way, it is a strong insult, a little old-fashioned or literary, not a light joke. Though actually, Judas was also just a common man’s name, the same Hebrew name as Judah; English kept the dark meaning because of that one story. Do not throw it at a . There is a quieter, rarer sense too — a tiny spy-hole in a door, a “judas” — but the meaning you need here is the .
叛徒(出自出賣耶穌的門徒猶大)。中文也寫「猶大」,易和雅各之子 Judah 搞混。
組成From Hebrew yehudá, through Greek and Latin. It is a doublet of Judah: same name, different English story.
同家族的字
- Judahsame Hebrew name; a doublet
原始詞典資料8 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。
Judasname/ˈd͡ʒuːdəs/
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biblicallifestylereligionJudas Iscariot, one of the twelve original Apostles of Jesus, known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.
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A male given name from Hebrew.
Judasnoun/ˈd͡ʒuːdəs/
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A traitor; a person not to be trusted.
- If there was a moment when Jack Dorsey first morphed from Jesus to Judas in the minds of many former Twitter staffers, it was when he described Elon Musk as the “singular solution” to take over the social media platform he co-founded.
Judasintj/ˈd͡ʒuːdəs/
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archaicJesus! (an exclamation used to express shock or surprise at something negative)
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。