Connivance
[kə'naɪv(ə)ns]
解释:
(noun.) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing.
(noun.) agreement on a secret plot.
手打:莉莲--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.
(n.) Corrupt or guilty assent to wrongdoing, not involving actual participation in, but knowledge of, and failure to prevent or oppose it.
胡安编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Voluntary blindness (to an act), pretended ignorance, forbearance or disapproval, winking at.
弗朗西斯整理
例句:
- He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I think that it was with the connivance of one or more of the men at the gate. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Still, if her father really has left her, without any connivance on her part—Bounderby, let me have a word with you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
编辑:梅齐