perfidy

英 ['pɜːfɪdɪ] 美 ['pɝfədi]

perfidy 背叛，不忠

来自拉丁语perfidia,背叛，出卖，不忠，来自per-,整个的，-fid,相信，信任，词源同faith,confident.字面意思即完全信任，后词义讽刺化。比较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.: 忠诚是爱情的桥梁,欺诈是友谊的敌人.

2. The knowledge of Hurstwood's perfidy wounded her like a knife.: 赫斯渥欺骗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?: 现在先别管赫斯渥的背理悖行 -- 他为什么要这样做?