cabal

英 [kəˈbæl]

美 [kəˈbæl]

n.  政治阴谋小集团

复数：cabals　现在分词：caballing　过去式：caballed　第三人称单数：cabals　过去分词：caballed　

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BNC.33672 / COCA.23307

牛津词典

noun

• 政治阴谋小集团
  a small group of people who are involved in secret plans to get political power

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 阴谋小集团;秘密团体
  If you refer to a group of politicians or other people as acabal, you are criticizing them because they meet and decide things secretly.
  1. He had been chosen by a cabal of fellow senators.
     他已被一个由一些参议员同仁组成的小集团选中。
  2. ...a secret government cabal.
     秘密的政府阴谋集团

英英释义

noun

• a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
  Synonym:conspiracy
• a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
  Synonym:factionjuntocamarilla

verb

• engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
  1. They conspired to overthrow the government
  Synonym:conspirecomplotconjuremachinate

双语例句

• The Dark Cabal will produce more ENEMIES that you "must fear and fight at all costs".
  黑暗势力将制造更多的敌人，使得你们必须恐惧与斗争，不惜任何代价。
• The cabal is now feverishly engaged in negotiating a reduction in the penalties to be levied against them.
  黑暗势力现在狂热的忙碌于谈判以减少责罚吞噬他们自己。
• Adding insult to injury, Macao's colonial rulers were also forced to negotiate a humiliating truce with a pro-Beijing cabal of local labour leaders and businessmen known as the Committee of Thirteen.
  更有甚者，澳门殖民统治者还被迫与亲北京的社团就一份羞辱性的认罪书进行磋商。该团体由当地劳工领袖和商人组成，被称为13人委员会。
• They strongly recommend that if certain results are not attained by a specific time, then predetermined consequences should be applied to the cabal and their governmental allies.
  我们强烈的建议，如果在明确的时间内没有实现目标，那么预定的后果应该被这些集团和他们的政府联盟接受。
• They are stories of conspiracy, of Americabeing hijacked by an evil cabal.
  这些是两方共同谋划的故事，美国人被邪恶的政治集团揩了油。
• If there ever was an argument for overcoming cabal resistance to disclosure, surely this is it.
  如果有争议对于战胜阴谋集团对于揭露的抵抗，这肯定就是它。
• The dark cabal still feels it is the only acceptable group to govern your world.
  黑暗势力依然还认为他们是唯一在你们世界可以被接受的集团。
• A fortnight ago he had a cabal that had the ear of everyone in government.
  就在两周前，默多克还有个小集团，政府里每个人都会听取该集团的意见。
• The Dark Cabal cannot exist in Love: it destroys their power.
  黑暗势力无法存在在“爱”中：这会毁了他们的力量。
• Nazi leader George Bush Senior and his cabal have finally contacted a White Dragon representative seeking some way to preserve their assets after the US corporate bankruptcy.
  纳粹的领导者老乔治布什和他的阴谋家们终极接触了一位白龙会的代表人，追求某些方法在美国政府的法人破产之后来保持他们的资产。