perfidy
perfidy 英 [ˈpɜ:fədi] 美 [ˈpɜrfədi]
n. 不诚实;背信弃义
名词复数:perfidies
- If you shared your most embarrassing secrets with a friend who then told them to everyone he knows, his betrayal could be described as perfidy.
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- n. 不诚实;背信弃义
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1. One common theme is to criticize the perfidy of the West, in particular accusing the United States of hypocrisy and attacking American values on the grounds they are not always upheld in America.
一个常见主题是批评西方的背信弃义,特别是美国虚伪的价值观,在国内外事件上奉行双重标准。
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2. China 's foreign policy has always been an often bizarre mix of pragmatism and perfidy.
中国的外交政策一直是一个常常奇怪的组合实用主义和背信弃义。
- perfidy (n.) 1590s, from Middle French perfidie (16c.), from Latin perfidia "faithlessness, falsehood, treachery," from perfidus "faithless," from phrase per fidem decipere "to deceive through trustingness," from per "through" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "through") + fidem (nominative fides) "faith" (from PIE root *bheidh- "to trust, confide, persuade").
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