【collude】 - A-level备考词汇

collude

UK:  [kə'luːd]

US:  [kə'lud]

第三人称单数：colludes  现在分词：colluding  过去式：colluded  

v.

1.共谋

1 . If the tobacco industry did collude to fix prices, at least it may have spread a little cheer while it did so.
如果烟草行业真的串谋操纵价格，至少在它们这么做的时候，可能已经传播了一些快乐。

2 . If it was enforced, it would make it harder for banks to collude in that process.
这一机制一旦实施，银行们会很难串通一气。

3 . Needless to say, Delhi is hardly the only city in the world where politicians and building contractors collude.
不用说，新德里也许是世界上唯一一个政府与建筑承包商相勾结的城市。

4 . There is an incentive to collude with other suppliers to boost prices, just as two prisoners have good reason to keep mum about their crime.
与其他供应商一起哄抬价格的动机，就像2个囚徒在他们的罪行方面都闭口不言。

5 . For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy .
因为，虽然从没有犯下一件昭然若揭的恶行我们本身，我们却与恶行勾结通过我们自己的冷漠。