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/ˈtriːti/
A signed document in which two or more countries bind themselves to what they agreed.
條約
複數 treaties
核心畫面
Picture two governments at a long table, and a document that both sides sign. What makes it this word rather than a deal or a promise is the level it sits at: countries, in writing, binding on the states themselves.
可以想成：兩國代表隔著一張長桌，桌上有一份文件，雙方都簽了名。讓它成為 treaty 而不是一般的協議或承諾的，是它…更多收起
可以想成：兩國代表隔著一張長桌，桌上有一份文件，雙方都簽了名。讓它成為 treaty 而不是一般的協議或承諾的，是它的層級——簽的是國家，形式是白紙黑字，效力綁的是國家本身。原始詞典資料9 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。
treatynoun/ˈtɹiːti/
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A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
- to sign a peace treaty
- to write up a treaty touching climate change
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archaicChiefly in in treaty: discussions or negotiations in order to reach an agreement.
- To a meeting of the executors of late Viscˢˢᵉ Mordaunt's estate, to consider of the sale of Parsons Greene; being in treaty with Mr. Loftus, and to settle the halfe yeare's account.
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archaicChiefly in private treaty: an agreement or settlement reached following negotiations; a compact, a contract, a covenant.
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obsoleteThe manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves; behaviour.
- Hoſ[t]. They call me Good-ſtock. / Lov[el]. Sir, and you confeſſe it, / Both i'your language, treaty, and your bearing.
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obsoleteThe addressing or consideration of a subject; discussion, treatment.
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obsoleteA formal, systematic discourse on some subject; a treatise.
- And though Galen doth ſometime nibble at Moſes, and beſide the Apoſtate Chriſtian, ſome Heathens have queſtioned his Philoſophicall part or treaty of the Creation: Yet is there ſurely no reaſonable Pagan, that will not admire the rationall and well grounded precepts of Chriſt; […]
- The Miniſters in Holland did upon this occaſion ſhew a very particular violence. In their ſermons, and in ſome printed treaties, they charged the Judges with corruption, who had carried the ſentence no farther than to baniſhment: And compared the fate of the De Wits to Haman’s.
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obsoleteAn act of beseeching or entreating; an entreaty, a plea, a request.
- Now I must / To the young man ſend humble Treaties, dodge / And palter in the ſhifts of lovvnes, vvho / VVith halfe the bulke o' th' vvorld plaid as I pleas'd, / Making, and marring Fortunes.
treatyverb/ˈtɹiːti/
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To get into (a specific situation) through a treaty.
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To enter into a treaty.
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。