connive
英 [kə'naɪv]
美[kə'naɪv]
- vi. 共谋；纵容；默许
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;
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。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 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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