英语单词 | conspiracy |
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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]
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]
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.
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