"Yes, sir. But, more than that, not one of these pedants who growled at promiscuous botany has once objected to promiscuous dancing, not even with the gentleman's arm round the lady's waist, which the custom of centuries cannot render decent. Yet the professors of delicacy connive, and the Mother Geese sit smirking at the wall. Oh, world of hypocrites and humbugs!"英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"The world laughs at baseness and connives at it. But this will kill Mme. de Beauseant."英文原著 · 《Father Goriot》
I do not design to enter on a crusade against tobacco. It is a mooted point in minor morals, in which every one must judge for himself; but I do wish men would not smoke so much. In fact, I should be pleased if they did not smoke at all. I do not believe there is any necessity for it. I believe it is a mere habit of self-indulgence. Women connive at it, because--well, because, in a way, they must. Men are childish, and, as I have said before, animal. I don't think they have nearly the self-restraint, self-denial, high dignity and purity and conscience that women have,--take them in the mass.英文原著 · 《Gala-Days》
I was about to obtain all I wished, when at the critical moment the news of the scenes at Malaga arrived at Madrid, and Sir George had little more to say than that Satan seemed to mingle in this game. Nevertheless I left prison, with the understanding that the Government would connive at the circulation of the Scriptures in a quiet manner, not calculated to produce disturbances nor to give scandal to the clergy.英文原著 · 《Letters》
You must renounce courts if you will not connive at knaves, and tolerate fools. Their number makes them considerable. You should as little quarrel as connect yourself with either.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1749》
Is the fair, or at least the fat, Miss C---- with you still ? It must be confessed that she knows the arts of courts, to be so received at Dresden, and so connived at in Leicester-fields.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1766-71》
- Too like. - That she should connive at my humiliation, should revel as I am cast into the dust.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
My solution was to ignore her. I knew a boy of Bryce's caliber would eventually see through a shallow conniver like Sherry Stalls.电影 · 《Flipped (2010)》