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

• A small cabal of politicians almost certainly stole the result by fraud ( see article).
  一个政客小集团通过欺骗几乎完全窃取了胜利果实。
• 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。
• 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。
• I used to believe I belonged to a cabal.
  我曾相信我属于一个团体。
• 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。
• Instead of trying to develop into a mass party, FRELIMO remained a small tightly organized cabal.
  FRELIMO没有试图发展成大的政党，而一直是组织严密的小秘密集团。
• As these new energies pour into your world, our joint efforts to remove the dark cabal progress well: our associates have completed the legalities required to declare many major regimes illegal.
  伴随着新的能量涌入你们的世界，我们移除黑暗阴谋集团的行动进展很顺利：我们的同事已经完成了声明许多主要政权是非法的合法性。
• Lately many of our Earth allies are noticing our affect upon the dark cabal.
  最近很多我们地球的盟友注意到了我们对于黑暗势力的影响。
• The last secret-government underground bases are closed, and we evacuated many more thousands of dark cabal underlings from them.
  最后的秘密政府的地下基地被关闭了，我们从黑暗势力手中疏散了数千他们的下属。
• 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。