One picture holds the whole word: two heads close together, breathing the same air, moving the same way. Whatever is going on is shared, it is quiet, and it points in one direction. English keeps that picture even when the things involved cannot breathe or plan at all — rain and a late bus get treated as if they had leaned in together and agreed on something.
From the word’s history
The Latin source is conspirare: con- 'together' plus spirare 'to breathe'. Literally, to breathe together. The modern uses are all still standing in that room — people close enough to share breath, or circumstances treated as if they were.
拉丁文的來源是 conspirare：con-（一起）加 spirare（呼吸），字面就是「一起呼吸」。今天的每一種用法，其實都還站在那個房間裡——不是幾個人靠得近到共用一口氣，就是把幾件事當成那樣來寫。
Wiktionary entry for 'conspire' (kaikki extract supplied in this evidence packet; source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:505487131:15187)
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
conspireverb/kənˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
- 1
To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results; to collude, to connive, to plot.
- They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him.
- And there came a man, rushing from the farthest end of the city. He said, “O Moses! The chiefs are actually conspiring against you to put you to death, so leave ˹the city˺. I really advise you ˹to do so˺.”
- 2
To agree, to concur to one end.
- The press, the pulpit, and the stage / Conspire to censure and expose our age.
- I feel my vanquish'd heart conspire To crown a flame by Heav'n approv'd.
- 3
To work together to bring about.
- Rain and sweat conspired to smudge her mascara.
- Angry clouds conspire your overthrow.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。