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。
• No, it is not a cabal. it's team obama.
  不，这并不是右派的观点，而是奥巴马团队的声音。
• 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。
• How was your cabal formed?
  你的结社是如何建立的？
• The world is no longer accepting dollars or Euros printed by banks under the control of the genocidal cabal.
  整个世界不再接受美金或者欧元，在种族灭尽黑暗团体的控制下由银行印刷出来。
• Several sections of this global cabal are extremely worried about how their coming collapse is to play out.
  全球阴谋体系的几个部分都在担心总崩溃的发生。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。