0 a person who is not loyal or stops being loyal to their own country, social class, beliefs, etc. -- 背叛者，叛徒；賣國賊
In spite of the many and abundant bribes, the prospective traitors either were neutralized or, in most cases, did not stir.
By this period the phrase ' ' invisible government ' ' had become internalized from designating traitors to the unseen agencies affecting government policy.
These did not have to be traitors, simply those who imperilled the nation by frivolity, carelessness or a lack of patriotic commitment.
Possessors of these qualities are called loyal and those who prefer their opposites are liars and traitors.
It is mainly organized around names (of informants, contacts, addresses, suspected traitors, etc.).
In their interviews the porteurs are haunted by the charge that they were traitors.
There certainly are indications that kangaroo courts against accused ' traitors ' continued.
The whigs might have been opponents, but at least they were not traitors and renegades.
