connive
英 [kəˈnaɪv]
美 [kəˈnaɪv]
记忆“connive”的方法是将其与“con”结合,想象一个隐藏或默许的共谋(connive),就像两个人在“con”杯子下交换眼神一样,暗示着他们之间的秘密或非直接的协作。这个联想可以帮助你记住“connive”意味着默许、纵容或共谋的意思。
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connive 纵容con-, 强调。-niv, 眨眼,词源同nictitate. 比喻睁一只眼闭一只眼,纵容。
- connive (v.)
- c. 1600, from Latin connivere, also conivere "to wink," hence, "to wink at (a crime), be secretly privy," from com- "together" (see com-) + base akin to nictare "to wink," from PIE root *kneigwh- (see nictitate). Related: Connived; conniving.
- 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.