perfidy是什么意思

perfidy

英 ['p??f?d?] 美 ['p?f?di]

perfidy 背叛，不忠

來自拉丁語perfidia,背叛，出賣，不忠，來自per-,整個的，-fid,相信，信任，詞源同faith,confident.字面意思即完全信任，后詞義諷刺化。比較perjury.

perfidy: perfidy: see faith
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" (see per) + fidem (nominative fides) "faith" (see faith).
[C]ombinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other. [Samuel Johnson, "Life of Waller"]

1. As devotion unites lovers , so perfidy estranges friends.: 忠誠是愛情的橋梁,欺詐是友誼的敵人.

2. The knowledge of Hurstwood's perfidy wounded her like a knife.: 赫斯渥欺騙她的消息像一把刀捅到了她的心里.

3. Never mind now about Hurstwood's perfidy -- why had he done this?: 現(xiàn)在先別管赫斯渥的背理悖行 -- 他為什么要這樣做?