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Conspiracy People Overthrow Government Accused Secret Agreement Commit

英语单词 conspiracy
英美音标 英 [kən'spɪrəsɪ] 美 [kən'spɪrəsɪ]
中文释义 n.阴谋;共谋
英语例句 (1) He is a party to the conspiracy.
(2) He revealed their conspiracy to overthrow the government.
(3) It has recently come to light that a second official was implicated in the conspiracy.
(4) She was convicted on an indictment for conspiracy.
(5) That conspirator was accused of conspiracy to murder.
中文例句 (1) 他参与了那次阴谋。
(2) 他泄露了他们推翻政府的阴谋。
(3) 最近有消息披露:又有一名高级官员与这个阴谋有牵连。
(4) 她被控以共谋罪,罪名成立。
(5) 那个同谋者被控参与谋杀。
vocabulary简明 A conspiracy is a secret agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful or harmful act. Conspiracy theorists are people who believe that the government is secretly controlled by power brokers in flagrant violation of the constitution.
vocabulary扩展 Conspiracy can also refer to the act of planning an unlawful or harmful act: Terrorists might be accused of organizing a conspiracy to overthrow the government. Conspiracy is ultimately from Latin cōnspīrāre "to agree or plot together, literally to breathe together." The corresponding English verb is conspire.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-VAR 可变名词]密谋;阴谋 Conspiracy is the secret planning by a group of people to do something illegal.
  [oft N to-inf]
  • Seven men, all from Bristol, admitted conspiracy to commit arson...

    7个人都来自布里斯托尔,他们承认了合谋纵火。

  • He believes there probably was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy in 1963.

    他认为1963年肯尼迪总统遇刺身亡可能是一个阴谋。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]阴谋 A conspiracy is an agreement between a group of people which other people think is wrong or is likely to be harmful.
  [oft N to-inf]
  • It's all part of a conspiracy to dispense with the town centre all together and move everything out to Meadowhall...

    彻底抛开市中心而把所有东西都搬到梅多霍尔购物中心,这完全是一场阴谋的一部分。

  • There was no evidence to link the brigade to any conspiracy against Mr Bush.

    没有证据表明这帮人对布什先生图谋不轨。

3
[PHRASE 短语](为了私利)保持缄默的密约 If there is a conspiracy of silence about something, people who know about it have agreed that they will not talk publicly about it, although it would probably be a good thing if people in general knew about it.
  • Detectives have run into a conspiracy of silence in the tight-knit communities of the peninsula.

    侦探们犯了难,半岛上各个群体抱成一团,达成了保持缄默的密约。

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