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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Joined in some kind of relationship ( as a colleague or ally or companion etc.); a cabal of associated lawyers.
  以某种关系相关联的（比如同事、同盟或同伴等）；联合律师的阴谋。
• Anyone wanting companies run by a self-serving, self-recruiting cabal could hardly improve on this incestuous system.
  任何希望公司由一个自私自利、中饱私囊的阴谋集团来经营的人，都几乎不可能改进这种朋比为奸的体系。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• How was your cabal formed?
  你的结社是如何建立的？