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

• 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。
• If there ever was an argument for overcoming cabal resistance to disclosure, surely this is it.
  如果有争议对于战胜阴谋集团对于揭露的抵抗，这肯定就是它。
• 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。
• The last secret-government underground bases are closed, and we evacuated many more thousands of dark cabal underlings from them.
  最后的秘密政府的地下基地被关闭了，我们从黑暗势力手中疏散了数千他们的下属。
• 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。
• I used to believe I belonged to a cabal.
  我曾相信我属于一个团体。
• 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。
• 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。
• For persistent domineering intrigues and the spirit of cabal creep beneath the cover.
  持续盛气凌人的阴谋和精神的阴谋蠕变的封面下方。
• Nazi leader George Bush Senior and his cabal have finally contacted a White Dragon representative seeking some way to preserve their assets after the US corporate bankruptcy.
  纳粹的领导者老乔治布什和他的阴谋家们终极接触了一位白龙会的代表人，追求某些方法在美国政府的法人破产之后来保持他们的资产。