暗中同一口氣
兩義都是同一幅『一起呼吸』的畫面，只是一邊湊在一起去做壞事，一邊湊在一起閉口不談。
secret plan · noun · B2
A secret plan made by two or more people to do something bad or against the law.
陰謀／密謀
核心畫面
Picture a few people leaning their heads close together, breathing and whispering as one — quietly agreed on something they don't want the rest of us to hear.
可以想成…幾個人把頭湊在一起、壓低聲音像同一口氣在呼吸——他們私下講好了某件事，卻不想讓外人聽見。
From the word’s history
From Latin conspirare 'to breathe together', from com- 'together' + spirare 'to breathe'; the image of breathing as one hardened into agreeing secretly as one.
源自拉丁文 conspirare『一起呼吸』，由 com-『共同』加 spirare『呼吸』組成；『同一口氣呼吸』的畫面後來變成『暗中同心串通』。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/conspire, /conspiracy)
One branch
原始詞典資料10 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。
conspiracynoun/kənˈspɪɹəsi/
- 1
An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
- Conspiracies, like all other exercises of human ingenuity, are of very different kinds. The gloomy plots arranged in old Italian halls...
- And you may have noticed that those who are too quick to shout 'conspiracy theorist' are equally swift, when consequences for authority and consensus impend, to look serious and say 'It's more complicated than that.' These have become standard damage-control reflexes.
- 2
lawAn agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
- 3
An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
- The former programme of the entertainments, which were to result from this generous conspiracy to assist a man whom fortune had buffeted, was eagerly looked for, not only for the reunion of old favorites that it promised to bring about, but out of sympathy for the sentiment which has prompted this graceful act of kindness.
- On another occasion, some months later, when Currita's birthday, the 10th of October, and feast of St. Francis Borgia, was approaching, the two children were plotting together a conspiracy to give their mother a surprise.
- 4
An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
- But this I call civil life […] living [together] in good and politic order, one ever ready to do good to another, and as it were conspiring [together] in all virtue and honesty. […] You said right now that this civil life was a politic order and, as it were, a conspiracy in honesty and virtue, […]
- You may even find yourself using your new awareness and insight to assist others in their recovery process. A conspiracy to enable others joins the minds of all who seek faces of recovery.
- 5
An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
- Rather than propagating conspiracies about the evils of wealthy Jewry, they beat up poor Roma in back alleys.
- The internet helps spread conspiracies, but it can also be used to verify claims made by politicians and the media.
- 6
rareA group of various animals.
- She was wary, jumping at imagined shadows and at the prowlings of a conspiracy of cats lurking in an alley
- 7
rareA group of various animals.
- Over-the-top tales flew around like a conspiracy of crows.
- Special thanks to the conspiracy of corvids who graciously visit me on occasion , accepting my offering of breadcrumbs and allowing me to quietly study their movements and sounds so I could accurately represent their much larger siblings in the messenger-ravens' eyrie
- 8
rareA group of various animals.
- Indeed, as I sat, forlorn, never having found my particular conspiracy of lemurs (how about that for a name for a group of lemurs? The name lemur itself comes from the Latin for “spirits of the dead”) …
- The Oregon Zoo welcomed two red-ruffed lemurs this week, bringing the total number in the conspiracy — the name for a group of lemurs — to seven.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
- That is, further exploration of phonological systems of various languages may turn up evidence motivating conspiracies that have been regarded thus far as impossible.[…]This study of labial palatalization conspiracy is a contribution to the 'too many solutions'/'too few data' problem.
conspiracyverb/kənˈspɪɹəsi/
- 1
rareTo conspire.
- He knew I would come for him when I discovered what he did, so he, he conspiracied to put me in prison.
- “What are you two conspiracying about up here?” asked Kira, walking up next to me.
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。