con-, 强调。-niv, 眨眼，词源同nictitate. 比喻睁一只眼闭一只眼，纵容。

1. 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。

2. She was obliged to connive at her husband's infidelity.

她不得不默许丈夫对她的不忠.

3. The prisoners paid the guards to connive at their escape.

囚犯们贿赂看守,使看守默许他们越狱.

4. 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.

5. 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.