connive
connive
[kəˈnʌɪv]
verb
conniver
noun
语源
[kəˈnʌɪv]
verb
- [no obj.](connive at/in)secretly allow (something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful) to occur
默许；纵容
government officials were prepared to connive in impeding the course of justice.
对于司法过程的阻碍政府官员已准备默许。
■conspire to do something considered immoral, illegal, or harmful
共谋；阴谋
the government had connived with security forces in permitting murder.
政府已和安全部队暗中勾结默许谋杀。
[as adj. conniving]a heartless and conniving woman.
无情而擅使阴谋诡计的女子。
conniver
noun
语源
- early 17th cent.: from French conniver or Latin connivere 'shut the eyes (to'), from con- 'together' + an unrecorded word related to nictare 'to wink'
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