果味酸柯林斯词典

connive

C 开头单词GRE词汇

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [kəˈnaɪv]
  • 美式音标 [kəˈnaɪv]
  • 国际音标 [kə'naiv]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • v.共謀；默許；縱容

词根记忆

  • con + nive(眨眼睛)→互相眨眼睛→共謀

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    conniving：縱容的；默許的。
  • n性質的同根詞
    connivance：縱容；默許；假裝不見。
  • v性質的同根詞
    conniving：縱容；默許；假裝不見；共謀（connive的ing形式）。

英汉例句

  • The prisoners paid the guards to connive at their escape.
    囚犯們賄賂看守,使看守默許他們越獄.
  • Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
    對於破壞環境的行爲不加反對就等於縱容.
  • To buy things cheaply from a poor country is to connive in its poverty.
    低價從貧窮國家採購是加重其貧窮的不義之擧。
  • She was obliged to connive at her husband's infidelity.
    她不得不默許丈夫對她的不忠.
  • The prisoners paid the guards to connive at their escape.
    囚犯們賄賂看守,使看守默許他們越獄.

词组短语

    短語

  • Connive At 放縱
  • connivance connive 縱容
  • Connive Development 共謀發展
  • connive with 密謀
  • connive e 默許

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to plan secretly and dishonestly for something to happen that will be to your advantage

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If one person connives with another to do something, they secretly try to achieve something which will benefit both of them.