| 释义 |
●sell sb down the ˈriver (informal) act very unfairly to sb who trusts you; betray sb you have promised to help 出卖；背叛；背信弃义◆The workers thought that their own leaders had sold them down the river.工人们以为他们的领袖已经出卖了他们。 ORIGIN This idiom comes from the days of slavery in the US. A slave who was sold to an owner further down the Mississippi river would experience worse conditions than in the states further north. 这个习语源于美国奴隶制时代。被卖到密西西比河下游的奴隶比在北方各州的生活条件更加恶劣。 |