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词汇 connived
释义 connived
past simple and past participle ofconnive
connive
verb[ I ]
uk /kəˈnaɪv/ us /kəˈnaɪv/
to plan secretly and dishonestly for something to happen that will be to your advantage: 密谋;搞阴谋
Officials were accused of conniving with the company in the supply of arms to Sierra Leone.官员们被指控与该公司串通为塞拉利昂提供武器。
[ + to infinitive ]They connived to break the school rules at every opportunity.他们一有机会就密谋违反校规。
to allow something bad to happen although you know about it: 纵容;放任;默许
She had murdered or connived at the murder of one of her lovers.她谋杀或者默许他人谋杀了她的一个情人。
He called for an independent investigation to find out whether corrupt officials are being bribed to connive in shoddy construction.他要求调查腐败官员是否接受了贿赂而对质量低劣的建筑工程听之任之。
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Examples of connived


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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Lowther had all along connived at the old agreement, which in effect subsidized the trade in his coal.
Nor was this always done on a local, informal manner; in many instances, the record indicates that both secular and religious authorities connived in this practical, less than by-the-book practice.
That is an appalling prospect, and a hideous responsibility would descend on the shoulders of anyone who connived at or accepted such a proposal.
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Those are documented atrocities that certainly brand those who have committed them or connived in them as war criminals.
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Is he further aware that if anything of this kind were connived at surreptitiously, it would have a very bad effect indeed on public confidence?
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But it was not a policy connived at through the back door.
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In that way, too many connived in overmanning.
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However, because it is domestic, there is always a suggestion that the woman somehow connived at the treatment that she received.
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I greatly regret that there is, in my opinion, evidence that the police connived in this exceedingly distasteful incident.
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He connived at the way it was passed.
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As it is, they have connived at every inflationary wage claim that has been submitted.
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The correct analogy is that the director himself knows whether he consented or connived.
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Then there are the people at the top—those who connived at this share issue.
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She did not inform the authorities, so that of course she must have connived at it.
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They are guilty men: they have connived in this project.
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