Word of the Day : October 14, 2021
cabal
阴谋团体，秘密组织
noun kuh-BAHL ｜ [kəˈbæl]

What It Means
A cabal is a group secretly united in a plot.
A cabal 是秘密联合在一个阴谋中的团体。
Examples
Military police arrested members of the cabal who were planning to overthrow the government.
宪兵逮捕了计划推翻政府的阴谋集团成员。
“February 14? … That’s an arbitrary date picked by a cabal of florists and greeting card manufacturers. Love can happen any time of the year….” — Bruce Gravel, Peterborough (Ontario) This Week, 4 Feb. 2021
“2 月 14 日？……那是花店和贺卡制造商集团秘密的随意挑选的日期。爱情可以在一年中的任何时候发生……”
Did You Know?
Cabal has been associated with a group of five ministers in the government of England’s King Charles II. The initial letters of the names or titles of those men (Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale) spelled cabal, and they have been collectively dubbed as the “Cabal Cabinet” or “Cabal Ministry.” But these five names are not the source of the word cabal, which was in use decades before Charles II ascended the throne. The term traces back to cabbala, the Medieval Latin name for the Kabbalah, a traditional system of esoteric Jewish mysticism. Latin borrowed Cabbala from the Hebrew qabbālāh, meaning “received or traditional lore.”
Cabal 与英格兰国王查理二世执政的五位部长有联系。 这些人（克利福德、阿灵顿、白金汉、阿什利和劳德代尔）的名字或头衔的首字母拼写为 cabal，他们被统称为“Cabal 内阁”或“Cabal 部”。 但这五个名字并不是 cabal 的来源，这个词在查理二世登基前几十年就已经使用了。 它可以追溯到Kabbalah的中世纪拉丁语cabbala，它是传统的犹太秘密组织。 拉丁语从希伯来语 qabbālāh 借用了 Cabbala，意思是“received or traditional lore「被接受的传说或传统的知识」”。
Quiz
Fill in the blanks to complete a name for an assembly of persons called together to a meeting: co _ vo _ _ t _ _ _.
convocation「会议」