SCLBETRAYthe crime of being disloyal to your country or its government, especially by helping its enemies or trying to remove the government using violence 叛国(罪),通敌(罪) → treachery
treason against
Richter is accused of committing treason against the state.
里克特被控犯有叛国罪。
The defendant was convicted of high treason (=treason of the worst kind) and sentenced to death.
被告被判犯有严重叛国罪,并处以死刑。
—treasonable, treasonousadjectiveadj
a treasonable act against the head of state
反对国家元首的一次叛国行动
Examples from the Corpus
treason• All five of the men will be charged with committingtreason against the state.• Wolf is being tried by the same court that sentenced him to six years in prison for treason and bribery.• He also underwent several periods of defacto house arrest and trial for treason between 1956 and 1961.• Fleming was flown to Washington and tried for treason.• He was now arrested, tried for treason for his support of Jane Grey and condemned to death.• Norris was sentenced to 20 years for treason.• The charges against him included treason.• He was then accused of treason and eventually beheaded.• He was accused of treason against the nation for his willingness to negotiate with Texas and the United States.• The Polisario Front on Aug. 13 accused Hakim of treason.
treason against• He was wrongly accused of treason against the U.S. government.
Origintreason
(1100-1200)Old Frenchtraison, from Latintraditio“act of handing over or betraying”, from tradere; → TRAITOR
ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤high叛國罪PREPOSITION➤treason against對⋯的叛逆◇an act of high treason against the English crown對英國的叛國行為PHRASES➤an act of treason叛逆行為➡ note at crime