Connivance
[kə'naɪv(ə)ns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing.
(noun.) agreement on a secret plot.
手打:莉莲--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
胡安編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Voluntary blindness (to an act), pretended ignorance, forbearance or disapproval, winking at.
弗朗西斯整理
例句/造句/用法:
- He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I think that it was with the connivance of one or more of the men at the gate. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Still, if her father really has left her, without any connivance on her part—Bounderby, let me have a word with you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
編輯:梅齐