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Someone who takes part in a secret plan to do something illegal, or to harm a government or a powerful person. You hear it in news, history, and crime stories. It is a serious word: calling someone a conspirator is an accusation. The secret plan is the conspiracy; the people in on it are the conspirators. Though actually, friends sometimes use it lightly for anyone hiding a surprise (“the birthday-party conspirators”), but in court and in the news it stays heavy.
共謀者；同謀
組成From Anglo-Norman conspiratour. In English you can still see conspire + -ator (a person who does the verb). The older Latin idea was “to breathe together” — people putting their heads together in secret.
同家族的字
- conspirethe verb: to make the secret plan
- conspiracythe secret plan itself
原始詞典資料1 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。
conspiratornoun/kənˈspɪɹətə/
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One of a group that acts in harmony to do something unlawful and unethical; a person who is part of a conspiracy.
- The conspirators were rounded up by the police and arrested.
- All the Jacobite gentry of that part of the country were collected together; though, it must be confessed, their appearance and their usual after-dinner conversation were rather at variance. Now they looked calm and comfortable, with as little the appearance of conspirators as possible; then they were (by their own account) the most oppressed of individuals, and the most devoted of partisans, ready to die, so that their wrongs were redressed, and the rightful king restored.
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。