| 单词 | conspire |
| 释义 | conspire (once / 223 pages) v When you conspire, you collaborate with others to do harm, or maybe just keep something from happening, like a group that conspires to get tuna melts booted from the lunch menu by urging everyone to order other things. You can conspire with someone, meaning you team up with another person to plot against someone else, or you can conspire against someone. This means you devise a scheme to do that person harm. Conspire also can be used in a more figurative sense to describe events that cause problems, like bad weather that may conspire against your picnic plans, or a series of injuries that conspire against a basketball team struggling to make the playoffs. WORD FAMILYconspire: conspiracy, conspirative, conspirator, conspired, conspires, conspiring+/conspiracy: conspiracies/conspirator: conspiratorial, conspirators/conspiratorial: conspiratorially USAGE EXAMPLESMaduro attempted to outlaw Venezuela’s largest banknote in mid-December, a measure that he said would strike at foreign powers conspiring to sabotage his socialist government. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) He died a day after being indicted for allegedly conspiring to rig bids, a charge he denied. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Mr Ramsey claimed the TV network, production company Critical Content and expert interviewees conspired to defame him for publicity and profit. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1v 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 Syn|Hyper collude interact act together or towards others or with others 2v engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together They conspired to overthrow the government Syn|Hypo|Hyper cabal, complot, conjure, machinate coconspire conspire together plot plan secretly, usually something illegal |
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