confederate

英 [kənˈfedərət]

美 [kənˈfedərət]

n.  同谋; 同伙; 从犯; 共犯
adj.  联盟的; 同盟的; 联邦的
v.  联合; 结盟

复数：confederates　过去式：confederated　现在分词：confederating　第三人称单数：confederates　过去分词：confederated　

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牛津词典

noun

• 同谋；同伙；从犯；共犯
  a person who helps sb, especially to do sth illegal or secret

adj.

• 联盟的；同盟的；联邦的
  belonging to a confederacy

柯林斯词典

• (秘密活动的)同伙，同党，同谋
  Someone'sconfederatesare the people they are working with in a secret activity.

英英释义

noun

• a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)
  Synonym:accomplice
• someone who assists in a plot
  Synonym:collaboratorhenchmanpartner in crime

verb

• form a confederation with
• form a group or unite
  1. The groups banded together
  Synonym:band together

adj

• united in a confederacy or league
  Synonym:alliedconfederative

双语例句

• Now therefore we will make him our friend and our confederate.
  我们要使他作为我们的朋友，作我们的同盟！
• Oh, I'm not. I'm a Confederate like everybody else, that's all.
  噢，我不是。我跟大家一样都是南方联盟的一员。
• Our government decided to confederate our state with the three states nearby in order to contend with our common enemy.
  我国政府决定与附近三个国家结成同盟，与我们共同的敌人抗衡。
• In retaliation, Confederate raiders, outfitted in the South and abroad, launched an effective guerrilla war at sea against Union merchant shipping.
  为了反击，南方联邦在海外和南方进行了全面装备，在海洋上发动了有力的抵制联邦商船海运的游击战。
• I mean a confederate republic.
  我所说的这种政体便是联邦共和国。
• Sometimes Washington seemed within the Confederate grasp;
  有时华盛顿似乎落人了南部邦联的掌握之中；
• They ran into several thousand Confederate soldiers.
  他们冲进了几千同盟布阵中。
• The Confederate command arrives from above the battlefield.
  该同盟由上述命令到达战场。
• Used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War ( who wore gray uniforms).
  用于表明美国内战联盟军队的（穿灰色制服的）。
• Robert E.Lee's Confederate army was much smaller than Joe Hooker's Union army.
  罗伯特E·李的同盟军与胡克的联盟军相比数量更少了。