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 connive [kә'naiv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vi. 默许, 共谋, 纵容

[法] 默许, 纵容, 共谋


  1. 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。
  2. God cannot alter the past; that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historian.
    神不能改变过去;惟其如是,他就不能不对历史家的存在一只眼开一只眼闭了。
  3. God cannot alter the past; that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians.
    神不能改变过去;惟其如是,他就不能不对历史家的存在一只眼开一只眼闭了。


connive
[ verb ]
  1. encourage or assent to illegally or criminally

  2. <verb.social>
  3. form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

  4. <verb.cognition> intrigue scheme


Connive \Con*nive"\, v. t.
To shut the eyes to; to overlook; to pretend not to see. [R.
& Obs.] ``Divorces were not connived only, but with eye open
allowed.'' --Milton.


Connive \Con*nive"\ (k[o^]n*n[imac]v"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Connived} (-n[imac]vd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Conniving}.] [L.
connivere to shut the eyes, connive, fr. con- + (perh.) a
word akin to nicere to beckon, nictare to wink.]
1. To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink. [Obs.]

The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously,
and to connive with either eye. --Spectator.

2. To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or
forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a
proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by
at.

To connive at what it does not approve. --Jer.
Taylor.

In many of these, the directors were heartily
concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging,
and sometimes commanding; in all they were
conniving. --Burke.

The government thought it expedient, occasionally,
to connive at the violation of this rule.
--Macaulay.

  1. To connive at atrocities for reasons of realpolitik concealed under the cloak of pseudo-pacifism is to bring it into disrepute. It may now be too late to provide the Bosnian government with effective means of self-defence.
  2. Finance Secretary Jaime Ongpin, who oversees the Bureau of Customs, says customs officials still connive at widespread smuggling.
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