Connivance

(noun.) (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing.

(noun.) agreement on a secret plot.

手打:莉莲

• He entered the town (538 B.C.), probably as we have already suggested, with the connivance of the priests of Bel. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was the kind of masculine solidarity that he himself often practised; now he sickened at their connivance. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I think that it was with the connivance of one or more of the men at the gate. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Still, if her father really has left her, without any connivance on her part—Bounderby, let me have a word with you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

编辑:梅齐