中文词源
cahoots 结伙欺骗
可能来自cohort的变体。co-, 强调，-hort, 同yard, 院子，同伴。
英语词源
- cahoots (n.)
- 1829, American English, of unknown origin; said to be perhaps from French cahute "cabin, hut" (12c.), but U.S. sources credit it to French cohorte (see cohort), a word said to have been in use in the U.S. South and West with a sense of "companions, confederates."
权威例句
- 1. I am not having you and him in cahoots against me.
- 我不会让你和他勾结起来害我的。
- 2. In his view they were all in cahoots with the police.
- 照他看，他们和警察都是一伙的。
- 3. Some people believe that the company directors are in cahoots with the government.
- 有些人相信公司的董事们与政府勾结.
- 4. The two criminals were in cahoots ( with each other ).
- 那两个罪犯 ( 彼此 ) 勾结在一起.
- 5. The hanged captain had been in cahoots with the enemy.
- 被处决的上尉犯有通敌罪.