词语释义

英 [kə'naɪv] 美 [kə'naɪv]

vi. 共谋；纵容；默许

单词分析：

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英英释义

Verb:

encourage or assent to illegally or criminally

form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

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单词词源

中文词源

connive 纵容

con-, 强调。-niv, 眨眼，词源同nictitate. 比喻睁一只眼闭一只眼，纵容。

英语词源

connive (v.)

c. 1600, from Latin connivere, also conivere "to wink," hence, "to wink at (a crime), be secretly privy," from com- "together" (see com-) + base akin to nictare "to wink," from PIE root *kneigwh- (see nictitate). Related: Connived; conniving.

词态变化

第三人称单数 connives;
过去式 connived;
过去分词 connived;
现在分词 conniving;

权威造句

1. To buy things cheaply from a poor country is to connive in its poverty.

低价从贫穷国家采购是加重其贫穷的不义之举。

来自柯林斯例句

2. She was obliged to connive at her husband's infidelity.

她不得不默许丈夫对她的不忠.

来自辞典例句

3. The prisoners paid the guards to connive at their escape.

囚犯们贿赂看守,使看守默许他们越狱.

来自辞典例句

4. The student tried to connive with her friend to cheat in the examination.

那个学生企图和她的朋友串谋考试作弊.

来自辞典例句

5. Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.

对于破坏环境的行为不加反对就等于纵容.

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近反义词

scheme 阴谋

plot 情节

conspire 阴谋

plan 计划

hatch 孵化

cook up 编造

collude 串通

complot <古>共谋

cooperate 合作

intrigue 欺骗

相似短语

connive at 视而不见,默许,纵容

connive with 与…达成默契,与…共谋