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Conspire V To Inf   [V N Conspiring Team Person

英语单词 conspire
英美音标 [kən'spaiə(r)]
中文释义 v.共谋,阴谋,(指事件)凑合起来
vocab简明 When you conspire, you collaborate with others to do harm, or maybe just keep something from happening, like a group that conspires to get tuna melts booted from the lunch menu by urging everyone to order other things.
vocab扩展 You can conspire with someone, meaning you team up with another person to plot against someone else, or you can conspire against someone. This means you devise a scheme to do that person harm. Conspire also can be used in a more figurative sense to describe events that cause problems, like bad weather that may conspire against your picnic plans, or a series of injuries that conspire against a basketball team struggling to make the playoffs.
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[V-RECIP 相互动词]密谋;共谋;搞阴谋 If two or more people or groups conspire to do something illegal or harmful, they make a secret agreement to do it.
  [pl-n V to-inf]
  [V with n to-inf]
  [pl-n V against n]
  [Also V with n]
  • They'd conspired to overthrow the government...

    他们曾经密谋推翻政府。

  • Mr Farmer and Mrs Jones both admitted conspiring to murder her husband.

    法默先生和琼斯太太都承认密谋杀死了琼斯先生。

  • ...a defendant convicted of conspiring with his brother to commit robberies...

    被判与其兄弟合谋抢劫的被告

  • I had a persecution complex and thought people were conspiring against me.

    我有过被害情结,认为大家都在密谋暗算我。

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[VERB 动词](事件)凑在一起致使,共同导致 If events conspire to produce a particular result, they seem to work together to cause this result.
  [V to-inf]
  [V against n]
  • History and geography have conspired to bring Greece to a moment of decision...

    历史和地理因素共同将希腊推至作出抉择的紧要关头。

  • But fateful forces beyond the band's control were to conspire against them.

    然而,乐队无力控制的各种决定性力量将会对他们造成不利的影响。

来源 2015.4

Tags: 单词::2015

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