把眼睛閉上，不出手
這一支只用到「閉眼」這一半的畫面。眼睛一閉，該擋的沒有擋，事情就過去了。
verb · C2
To know that something wrong is going on and let it continue, saying nothing, when you could have stopped it. It is nearly always used as connive at something.
縱容；默許
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a pair of eyes closing. The Latin root behind connive means to shut the eyes or to wink. Shut your eyes on a wrong thing and it goes on without you — that is one branch. Catch someone else's eye and wink, and the two of you have agreed without a word — that is the other. Neither branch is loud. In both, something wrong is allowed to happen quietly.
connive 的畫面可以想成一雙閉起來的眼睛。拉丁文的老意思就是「把眼睛閉上、眨一下眼」。壞事在眼前，你把眼皮放下…更多收起
connive 的畫面可以想成一雙閉起來的眼睛。拉丁文的老意思就是「把眼睛閉上、眨一下眼」。壞事在眼前，你把眼皮放下來，它就繼續走下去。或者，你跟另一個人對看一眼，什麼都沒說，事情就講好了。兩邊都不吵、不明講。共同點是：不正當的事被安靜地放行。From the word’s history
From French conniver and Latin con(n)īvēre, to close or screw up the eyes, to blink or wink, and from there to overlook or turn a blind eye. Wiktionary notes the guess that the con- part points at two people winking at each other in a shared scheme — which lines up with the two modern branches of the word.
來自法文 conniver 和拉丁文 con(n)īvēre：閉眼、眨眼，再延伸成「當作沒看見」。字典也提到一種推測：con-（把幾個東西放在一起）可能指兩個人互相眨眼、心照不宣。這條線索剛好對上今天的兩支用法。
Wiktionary 'connive' (verb) etymology, supplied in packet; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1112431769:22652
Two branches
使個眼色，一起做
同樣是眼睛，只是這次多了一個人。眨眼從「不看」變成「互通」，於是變成兩個人的事。
verb · C2
If you connive with someone to do something, the two of you plan it in secret and work on it together. What you are planning is usually dishonest or unfair.
串通；密謀
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
conniveverb/kəˈnaɪv/
- 1
To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire.
- I might say, / That who despairs, acts; that who acts, connives / With God's relations set in time and space; [...]
- This very Law of Libel provides that "if any one connives with a guilty man and alleges him to be innocent, he renders himself liable to punishment."
- 2
rarebiologybotanynatural-sciencesOf parts of a plant: to be converging or in close contact; to be connivent.
- This species [...] differs from other species of this genus in the upper pinnæ being contracted, which are sinuously lobed, each lacinæ and lobe bearing a sorus, furnished with a nearly orbicular indusium, the free exterior margin of which connives with the margin of the lobe, [...]
- 3
obsoleteOften followed by at: to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore or overlook a fault deliberately.
- For ſince the affairs of the world have in them the varieties and perplexities beſides, it happens that in ſome caſes men know not how to govern by the ſtricteſt meaſures of religion, becauſe all men will not do their duty upon that account; and therefore laws are not made [...] with exact and pureſt meaſures, but in compliance and by neceſſity, not always as well as they ſhould, but as well as they may: and therefore the Civil power is forc'd ſometimes to connive at what it does not approve.
- Though all this Good be found in thee, I an offended that thou ſo conniveſt at the Hereſie of the falſe Teachers, as to permit ſome of them in your Communion, [...]
- 4
obsoleteTo open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
- The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye, and, in a word, the whole practice of political grimace.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。