conspiracy

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 conspiracie，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 conspiracie，源自拉丁語 cōnspīrātiō。conspiration 的同源對似詞。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /kənˈspɪɹəsi/

• （美國）音頻：

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名詞

conspiracy (可數 和 不可數，複數 conspiracies)

1. (亦法律) 同謀，共謀；陰謀
   • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, 第 3 卷，第 23 頁:

     Conspiracies, like all other exercises of human ingenuity, are of very different kinds. The gloomy plots arranged in old Italian halls...

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   • 2007, John Gray, Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia:

     Modern political religions may reject Christianity, but they cannot do without demonology. The Jacobins, the Bolsheviks and the Nazis all believed in vast conspiracies against them, as do radical Islamists today. It is never the flaws of human nature that stand in the way of Utopia. It is the workings of evil forces.

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2. （渡鴉）群
3. （狐猴）群
   • 2018年2月8日, Jeffrey T. Laitman, 「The Search for the Intersection of Form and Function: Looking for Clues into What Has Determined How, Why, and When Animals Came to Move the Way They Do」, 出自 The Anatomical Record, 第 301 卷, 第 3 期, →DOI:

     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”) …

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   • 2018年11月9日, 「Red alert: New lemurs join zoo conspiracy」, 出自 Oregon Zoo‎^[1], retrieved November 5, 2019:

     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.

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4. (語言學) 本詞語需要翻譯為漢語。請協助添加，並移除{{rfdef}}模板。
5. conspiracy theory (「陰謀論」)的縮略形式
   • 2008, Edward Snajdr, Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-0-295-98856-6, page 176:

     Rather than propagating conspiracies about the evils of wealthy Jewry, they beat up poor Roma in back alleys.

   • 2018, Rita Santos, The Deep State, Greenhaven Publishing, ISBN 978-1-5345-0321-2, page 99:

     The internet helps spread conspiracies, but it can also be used to verify claims made by politicians and the media.

衍生詞彙

• conspiracy of silence
• conspiracy theory

相關詞彙

• co-conspirator
• conspiration
• conspirator
• conspiratorial
• conspiratorialism
• conspiratorialist
• conspiratorially
• conspiratory
• conspire
• conspirer

 

動詞

conspiracy (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 conspiracies，現在分詞 conspiracying，一般過去時及過去分詞 conspiracied)

1. (不推薦使用) conspire之罕用形式。
   • 2007, Brian Francis Slattery, Spaceman Blues: A Love Song，第 45 頁:

     He knew I would come for him when I discovered what he did, so he, he conspiracied to put me in prison.

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   • 2019, Vincent Trigili, Rise of the Goblin King:

     “What are you two conspiracying about up here?” asked Kira, walking up next to me.

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   • 2019年11月21日, Alex Henderson, 「The looney CrowdStrike conspiracy claims debunked by Fiona Hill during her bombshell impeachment testimony」, 出自 AlterNet:

     Promoters of the CrowdStrike theory often claim that CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch is Ukrainian, which they see as “proof” of his willingness to conspiracy with the Ukrainian government and Democrats against Putin and Trump in 2016.

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延伸閱讀

• 「Conspiracy (theories)」 by Mark Liberman, published by Language Log (2022-08-18)