橘子朗文词典

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.共谋；默许；纵容

词根记忆

  • con + nive(眨眼睛)→互相眨眼睛→共谋

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    conniving：纵容的；默许的。
  • n性质的同根词
    connivance：纵容；默许；假装不见。
  • v性质的同根词
    conniving：纵容；默许；假装不见；共谋（connive的ing形式）。

英汉例句

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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。
  • She was obliged to connive at her husband's infidelity.
    她不得不默许丈夫对她的不忠.
  • 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.

词组短语

    短语

  • Connive At 放纵
  • connivance connive 纵容
  • Connive Development 共谋发展
  • connive with 密谋
  • connive e 默许

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • 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.