英语释义

1. lack of honesty in dealing with other people
She accused her landlord of bad faith because he had promised to paint the apartment but never did it.

2. intentional deception, dishonesty, or failure to meet an obligation or duty
no evidence of bad faith — compare good faith

3. with or characterized by intentional deception or dishonesty
possessor in bad faith an obligation to not act in bad faith
— Hillesland v. Federal Land Bank Ass'n, 407 N.W.2d 206 (1987)

片语

acting in bad faith背信弃义

bad faith intent恶意目的

bad faith tort doctrine背信侵权原则

Guy bad faith不讲信用的家伙

negotiations in bad faith在缺乏诚意谈判

good or bad faith善意或恶意

dishonesty不诚实；欺诈；不正直

perfidy不诚实；背信弃义

rhetoric bad faith最虚夸的背信

英汉例句

• parliamentary debate turned rancorous, with accusations of bad faith hurled around on live television.

  议会辩论变得深怀恶意，电视直播中充斥着对背信弃义的谴责。

• bad faith can infect our entire lives. we can live in bad faith.

  不守信能影响我们的一生，它就在我们的生活中。

• 「has there ever in recent political memory been so much calculation and bad faith by a politician who has made so much of eschewing both?」, asks rich lowry, the editor of the national review.

  在最近的政治记忆中有没有哪一位政客曾如此信誓旦旦，说要规避政治伎俩，说要坚守信念，而又如此地精于算计，如此地不守信义？” 《国民评论》的编辑里奇?劳瑞（richlowry）如是问道。

• bad faith becomes possible because a human being cannot simply be what he or she is, in the way that an inkwell simply is an inkwell.

  之所以会存在虚假的信念，是因为人类无法像墨水池之为墨水池那样，单纯地成为自己。

• one reason europeans have yet to set the euro right is that they still haven「t reckoned with the extent of bad faith that went into its creation.

  欧洲人迟早需要为欧元纠偏，其理由在于，一定程度上，他们仍为被自己的造物所蒙蔽。

• it is unclear whether such a strategy would be seen as an act of bad faith that undermines the agreement, since the nationals were not part of the discussions.

  至于国家党的这种策略会否被视为恶意破坏该协议，现在还不清楚，毕竟国家党没有参与这项协议的谈判。

• the swindler」s offer was in bad faith as he never expected to honor the agreement.

  那个骗子的提议是不守信义的，因为他压根儿就没想照协议办。

• it ' s just plain bad faith to promote an agenda the way this art show does and then claim no responsibility for the immoral behavior it encourages.

  用这种艺术展览来推动这样败坏道德的东西，又说他们为此不必负责，这真的是非常败坏信仰。