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Definition of counterplot in English: counterplotnounPlural counterplotsˈkaʊntəplɒtˈkaʊn(t)ərˌplɑt A plot intended to thwart another plot. 对抗策略；反计 the shadowy plots and counterplots of spring 1987 Example sentencesExamples - We get no sense of the Western society in which they live, apart from a ham-fistedly jolly counterplot about Ziad's friend running a pizza restaurant.
- But unlike most of the conspiracies, plots and counterplots in the Lockerbie saga, this one has been solved in days, rather than years.
- Plot, counterplot, and civil war between Stilicho, Honorius, the Western senate and the Goths under Alaric did much to ensure in the long term the collapse of Roman rule throughout the West.
- Some people, particularly ambitious ones, see plots and counterplots where none exists.
- The rest is plot / counterplot, as the rival Sforzas plot to seduce Lucrezia, and political marriages ensue.
- A dark night has fallen over Collinwood, a night that will bring with it both the plots and counterplots of good versus evil, as well as a deepening mystery of other worlds intersecting with our own.
- Guy never allows the labyrinth of plots and counterplots to muddle his story.
- All of these brothers, all of these princes, it just sounds like it would be inevitably a nest of plots and counterplots, ambitions and current.
- Since the film rarely stops to take stock of its overcomplicated story (complete with political counterplots and a largely unexplored backstory), things can get a little confusing at times.
- The carefully controlled plan, the coup d'état they are preparing for, will collapse in a whirlwind of treachery and counterplots, and eventually they will be forced to abandon it.
- I had a scheme for collecting that ransom without danger of being caught by counterplots that ought to commend itself to professional kidnappers.
- Romeo and Juliette, similarly, is a story of emotions out of control, and of plots and counterplots tripping over one another.
verbcounterplotted, counterplotting, counterplotsˈkaʊntəplɒtˈkaʊn(t)ərˌplɑt [no object]Devise a counterplot. 设反计；将计就计 Example sentencesExamples - Sam is further wedged between the addictive scheming of Felix's bride-to-be Marjorie, and the vengeful counterplotting of his long-jilted mother Gloria.
- Shoot To Kill - A tale of plotting and counterplotting commences after the new district attorney and an escaped gangster are killed in a car crash!
- In a final twist Thynn is implicated as counterplotting against Monmouth to join forces with the Catholic cause.
- In days of old, England has had Statesmen, such as Pitt and Castlereagh, who were true to their country and easily counterplotted and put down the Jesuit conspiracies in Ireland.
- Thus the plotting and counterplotting gets morally foggier when public relations gets into the government and industry arena.
Definition of counterplot in US English: counterplotnounˈkoun(t)ərˌplätˈkaʊn(t)ərˌplɑt A plot intended to thwart another plot. 对抗策略；反计 the shadowy plots and counterplots of spring 1987 Example sentencesExamples - Plot, counterplot, and civil war between Stilicho, Honorius, the Western senate and the Goths under Alaric did much to ensure in the long term the collapse of Roman rule throughout the West.
- Guy never allows the labyrinth of plots and counterplots to muddle his story.
- Since the film rarely stops to take stock of its overcomplicated story (complete with political counterplots and a largely unexplored backstory), things can get a little confusing at times.
- We get no sense of the Western society in which they live, apart from a ham-fistedly jolly counterplot about Ziad's friend running a pizza restaurant.
- I had a scheme for collecting that ransom without danger of being caught by counterplots that ought to commend itself to professional kidnappers.
- Some people, particularly ambitious ones, see plots and counterplots where none exists.
- All of these brothers, all of these princes, it just sounds like it would be inevitably a nest of plots and counterplots, ambitions and current.
- But unlike most of the conspiracies, plots and counterplots in the Lockerbie saga, this one has been solved in days, rather than years.
- Romeo and Juliette, similarly, is a story of emotions out of control, and of plots and counterplots tripping over one another.
- The rest is plot / counterplot, as the rival Sforzas plot to seduce Lucrezia, and political marriages ensue.
- A dark night has fallen over Collinwood, a night that will bring with it both the plots and counterplots of good versus evil, as well as a deepening mystery of other worlds intersecting with our own.
- The carefully controlled plan, the coup d'état they are preparing for, will collapse in a whirlwind of treachery and counterplots, and eventually they will be forced to abandon it.
verbˈkoun(t)ərˌplätˈkaʊn(t)ərˌplɑt [no object]Devise a counterplot. 设反计；将计就计 Example sentencesExamples - Sam is further wedged between the addictive scheming of Felix's bride-to-be Marjorie, and the vengeful counterplotting of his long-jilted mother Gloria.
- Thus the plotting and counterplotting gets morally foggier when public relations gets into the government and industry arena.
- Shoot To Kill - A tale of plotting and counterplotting commences after the new district attorney and an escaped gangster are killed in a car crash!
- In a final twist Thynn is implicated as counterplotting against Monmouth to join forces with the Catholic cause.
- In days of old, England has had Statesmen, such as Pitt and Castlereagh, who were true to their country and easily counterplotted and put down the Jesuit conspiracies in Ireland.
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