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。
Topics Crime and punishmentc1Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivepreposition- accomplice in
- accomplice to
See full entry 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’.