| 英语单词 | conspire |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [kən'spaɪə(r)] 美 [kən'spaɪər] |
| 中文释义 | v.阴谋;协力;共谋,串通一气 |
| 英语例句 | (1) They conspire against the government. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他们阴谋推翻政府。 |
| vocabulary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. |
| vocabulary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. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [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 [pl-n V [Also V
2 [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
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