a person who helps another to commit a crime or to do something wrong 帮凶;共犯;同谋 She became his unwitting accomplice in the robbery. 她稀里糊涂地成了他进行抢劫的帮凶。 an accomplice to murder 谋杀案的共犯 The police suspect that he had an accomplice. 警方怀疑他有同伙。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- willing
- unwitting
- alleged
- …
- accomplice in
- accomplice to
Word Originmid 16th cent.: alteration (probably by association with accompany) of Middle English complice ‘an associate’, via Old French from late Latin complex, complic- ‘allied’, from com- ‘together’ + the root of plicare ‘to fold’.