connive

英 [kəˈnaɪv]

美 [kəˈnaɪv]

v.  纵容; 默许; 放任; 共谋; 狼狈为奸; 同流合污

现在分词：conniving　过去分词：connived　过去式：connived　第三人称单数：connives　

TOEFLGRE法律

BNC.20771 / COCA.25506

牛津词典

verb

• 纵容；默许；放任
  to seem to allow sth wrong to happen
  1. She knew that if she said nothing she would be conniving in an injustice.
     她知道她如果什么也不说就是在纵容不公正的行为。
• 共谋；狼狈为奸；同流合污
  to work together with sb to do sth wrong or illegal
  1. The government was accused of having connived with the security forces to permit murder.
     政府被指控与安全部队狼狈为奸允许谋杀。

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。

英英释义

verb

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
  Synonym:schemeintrigue
• encourage or assent to illegally or criminally

双语例句

• Institutional investors connive in this by measuring fund managers 'performance quarterly ( or less) against markets that are heavily influenced by the herd behaviour of other fund managers and traders.
  机构投资者助长了这一局面，他们每个季度（或频率更高）都要评估基金经理相对于市场的业绩，而市场在很大程度上受到其他基金经理和交易员的从众行为的影响。
• God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
  全能的历史学家。上帝不能改变过去，因此他不得不默许历史学家的存在；
• Such a practice not only connive the illegal confession extorted by torture and other offences, but also cause missing opportunity to find the fact in light of on-court confession, thus unable to avoid the occurrence of unjust.
  这样的做法一方面纵容了侦查中的非法取证、刑讯逼供等违法行为，另一方面又错失了根据翻供中的线索查明案件真相的机会，从而无法避免冤假错案的发生，损害了司法公正。
• The student tried to connive with her friend to cheat in the examination.
  那个学生企图和她的朋友串谋考试作弊。
• 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。
• He was ready to connive with the Tammany bosses.
  他准备好要与坦马尼公司的老板们联手合谋。
• Not to protest is to connive at the destruction of the environment.
  对于破坏环境的行为不加反对就等于纵容。
• 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。
• Their purpose is to connive at wars of aggression and to profit by them.
  这个政策的目的，在于纵容侵略战争，自己从中取利。
• 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。