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单词 connive
释义
connive
verb[I]
uk
/kəˈnaɪv/us
/kəˈnaɪv/
toplansecretlyanddishonestlyfor something tohappenthat will be toyouradvantage:
密谋；搞阴谋
Officials wereaccusedof connivingwiththecompanyinthesupplyofarmsto Sierra Leone.官员们被指控与该公司串通为塞拉利昂提供武器。
[+ to infinitive]They connivedtobreaktheschoolrulesat everyopportunity.他们一有机会就密谋违反校规。
toallowsomethingbadtohappenalthoughyouknowabout it:
纵容；放任；默许
She hadmurderedor connivedatthemurderof one of herlovers.她谋杀或者默许他人谋杀了她的一个情人。
He called for anindependentinvestigationtofindout whethercorruptofficialsare beingbribedto conniveinshoddyconstruction.他要求调查腐败官员是否接受了贿赂而对质量低劣的建筑工程听之任之。
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Allowing and permitting
(Definition ofconnivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconnive

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Is he further aware that if anything of this kind were connived at surreptitiously, it would have a very bad effect indeed on public confidence?
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In that way, too many connived in overmanning.
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The police are thought in some quarters to possibly be conniving together to get a conviction.
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The strength of the system is that they are completely separate, and arrive at their decisions without conniving with one other.
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He said that it must be made plain whether they had connived or not.
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I have little doubt, on the constitutional issue, that what we are at present conniving at is wrong.
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The doctors have a much more serious complaint to make in the charge that is brought against them of conniving at malingering.
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If the man is out of the way he would neither have consented nor connived.
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He will stand accused of conniving at a cover-up, and he will be paving the way to a whitewash.
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In fact, film authorities have been associated with and conniving with education authorities that the law shall be broken.
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If so, is not one then conniving at the breaking of the law?
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Not only does he think that people are malingering—apparently he thinks that doctors are conniving at it.
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All he has to prove is that he neither consented nor connived.
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The world must face the fact that if one tolerates a single act of aggression, one connives at them all.
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By so doing, in a way they are conniving at its decline and perhaps accelerating its decline.
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