Conspire
[kən'spaɪə] or [kən'spaɪɚ]
解释:
(verb.) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; 'They conspired to overthrow the government'.
(verb.) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose; 'The two companies conspired to cause the value of the stock to fall'.
贝莎整理--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.
(v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.
(v. t.) To plot; to plan; to combine for.
手打:罗纳德
同义词及近义词：
v. n. [1]. Co-operate, conduce, tend, concur.[2]. Combine (for some evil design), plot, confederate, intrigue, cabal.
v. a. Plot, contrive, devise, project, compass.
伊丽莎白手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Concur, conduce, {[con]?}, tribute, agree, unite, hang, pull_together,co-operate, league, baud
ANT:Oppose, counteract, withstand, run_counter_to
辛迪校对
解释:
v.i. to plot or scheme together: to agree: to concur to one end.—v.t. to plan devise.—n. Conspir′acy the act of conspiring: a banding together for an evil purpose: a plot: concurrence.—adj. Conspir′ant conspiring.—ns. Conspirā′tion conspiracy; Conspir′ator one who conspires:—fem. Conspir′atress.—adj. Conspiratō′rial.—n. Conspir′er (Shak.) conspirator.—adv. Conspir′ingly.
整理:劳拉
例句:
- Two factors conspire in the later period of ancient life, however, to exalt literary and humanistic studies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin, and set him on shore in an unknown land. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- To which Mr. Weevle returns, William, I should have thought it would have been a lesson to YOU never to conspire any more as long as you lived. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- And if they are unable to expel him, or to get him condemned to death by a public accusation, they conspire to assassinate him. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- One fact alone outwardly proclaimed the change they were all conspiring to ignore; and that was the non-appearance of Ned Silverton. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- That proposal, sir, was a conspiring breach of your confidence, to such an extent, that I ought at once to have made it known to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- To which Mr. Guppy says, Who's conspiring? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Various reasons conspired to cause the departure from Menlo Park midway in the eighties. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Delaford,that place in which so much conspired to give her an interest; which she wished to be acquainted with, and yet desired to avoid. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- They did not seek to improve their script to make it swift and easy, but circumstances conspired to make it so. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Let me begin to do you the injustice I have conspired to do you, there--not here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- During the whole of Mary's confinement, the house of Camelot conspired in her behalf. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
伊莉斯校对