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

• Several sections of this global cabal are extremely worried about how their coming collapse is to play out.
  全球阴谋体系的几个部分都在担心总崩溃的发生。
• Instead of trying to develop into a mass party, FRELIMO remained a small tightly organized cabal.
  FRELIMO没有试图发展成大的政党，而一直是组织严密的小秘密集团。
• 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。
• Chanel had long since refused to join the cabal designers who tried to prevent style piracy.
  夏奈尔很久以前就拒绝加入试图防止设计侵权的设计师派系组织。
• 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。
• Joined in some kind of relationship ( as a colleague or ally or companion etc.); a cabal of associated lawyers.
  以某种关系相关联的（比如同事、同盟或同伴等）；联合律师的阴谋。
• The Dark Cabal will produce more ENEMIES that you "must fear and fight at all costs".
  黑暗势力将制造更多的敌人，使得你们必须恐惧与斗争，不惜任何代价。
• The cabal is now feverishly engaged in negotiating a reduction in the penalties to be levied against them.
  黑暗势力现在狂热的忙碌于谈判以减少责罚吞噬他们自己。
• 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。
• They are stories of conspiracy, of Americabeing hijacked by an evil cabal.
  这些是两方共同谋划的故事，美国人被邪恶的政治集团揩了油。