connived

英 [kəˈnaɪvd]

美 [kəˈnaɪvd]

v.  纵容; 默许; 放任; 共谋; 狼狈为奸; 同流合污
connive的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• V-RECIP 串通;密谋
  If one personconnives withanothertodo something, they secretly try to achieve something which will benefit both of them.
  1. He accused ministers of conniving with foreign companies to tear up employment rights...
     他指责部长们与外国公司串通一气损害就业权。
  2. Senior politicians connived to ensure that he was not released.
     几位资深政治家串通起来确保他不会获释。
  3. ...local authorities suspected of conniving with the Mafia.
     疑与黑手党串通一气的地方当局
• VERB 纵容;默许;共谋
  If you say that someoneconnives atsomething orconnives insomething, you are critical of them because they allow or help it to happen even though they know that it is wrong and that they ought to prevent it.
  1. He suspected elements within the South African government were conniving at the disturbances to try to weaken the ANC...
     他怀疑南非政府内有一帮人纵容这些骚乱的发生，企图削弱非国大。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• The general connived with the enemies of his country.
  这个将军私通自己国家的敌人。
• They connived to kill him.
  他们共谋要杀害他。
• Such crimes are common and are often connived at by the legal system.
  这样的罪行司空见惯，并且常常得到司法系统的默许。
• However, I found that it just connived PTB.
  但是，我发现这样恰恰纵容了PTB。
• She connived with his enemies to have him discredited.
  她与敌人勾结诋毁他的名誉。
• Senior politicians connived to ensure that he was not released.
  几位资深政治家串通起来确保他不会获释。
• He connived at the attack on the security guard.
  他纵容对警卫人员的袭击。
• The magistrate criticize the lawless behaviour of the football crowd. Violations of the law and breaches of discipline are not to be connived at.
  治安法官批评了观看足球赛人群目无法纪的行为。
• The young policeman connived at the man's escape because he felt sorry for him.
  那年轻的警察纵容那人逃走，因为他同情他。
• The approach adopted by the Paris Missionaries Society to the propagation of the Christian faith attracted and protected converts to some extent, but it connived at the evil-doing of its roguish church-goers, which resulted in the tarnished image of the church in China.
  法国巴黎外方传教会的政治传教方式虽然在一定程度上吸引和保护了教徒，但也纵容无赖教徒，使教会的形象受到很坏的影响。