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单词 connivance
释义
connivecon‧nive /kəˈnaɪv/ verb [intransitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINconnive
Origin:
1600-1700 French conniver, from Latin connivere ‘to close the eyes, connive’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
connive
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyconnive
he, she, itconnives
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyconnived
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave connived
he, she, ithas connived
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad connived
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill connive
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have connived
Continuous Form
PresentIam conniving
he, she, itis conniving
you, we, theyare conniving
PastI, he, she, itwas conniving
you, we, theywere conniving
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been conniving
he, she, ithas been conniving
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been conniving
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be conniving
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been conniving
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise.
  • Would the brother connive at it?
1to not try to stop something wrong from happeningconnive at He would not be the first politician to connive at a shady business deal.2connive (with somebody) to do something to work secretly with someone to achieve something, especially something wrong SYN  conspire:  They connived with their mother to deceive me.connivance noun [uncountable]:  We could not have escaped without the connivance of the guards.
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