英：[krəʊn]
美：[kroʊn]
crone如何读
crone是什么意思
- n.满脸皱纹的丑老太婆
crone变形
复数:crones
crone英英释义
- n.an ugly evil-looking old woman
crone词源中文解释
14世纪晚期，“一个虚弱而干瘪的老妇人”，在中古英语中是一种强烈的谩骂词，来自盎格鲁-法语 carogne “腐肉，尸体； 一只老母羊”，也是一种谩骂词，来自古北法语 carogne，古法语 charogne，是一个指脾气暴躁或干瘪的女人的谩骂词，也是“老羊”的意思，字面意思是“腐肉”，源自通俗拉丁语 *caronia（见 carrion）。
也许在法语中，“老母羊”的意义比“老妇人”的意义更古老，但前者在英语中只有16世纪才有记录。自20世纪中期以来，这个词在女权主义和新异教主义中被重新定义为成熟女性智慧和力量的象征。
crone词源英文解释
Middle English, a term of abuse, from Anglo-French caroine, charoine dead flesh — more at carrion
The first known use of crone was in the 14th century
crone儿童词典英英释义
crooknecknoun
a squash with a long curved neck
crookedadjective
having bends and curves
a crooked path
not set or placed straight
the picture is crooked
dishonest
a crooked card game
crookedadjective
having bends and curves
a crooked path
not set or placed straight
the picture is crooked
dishonest
a crooked card game
crookedadjective
having bends and curves
a crooked path
not set or placed straight
the picture is crooked
dishonest
a crooked card game
crook1 of 2verb
bend entry 1 sense 2, curve
crook2 of 2noun
a shepherd's staff with one end curved into a hook
a dishonest person (as a thief or swindler)
a curved or hooked part of a thing : bend
cronynoun
a close companion : pal
politicians who get jobs for their cronies
cronenoun
witch sense 2
crone 例句
1 Misogynistic stereotypes of seductive enchantresses and evil crones have been reclaimed as feminist symbols, and the modern proliferation of perfume blends named for witches, spells and potions suggests that many people find their associations empowering.
2 A bentback old crone in a shapeless grey dress approached him warily.
3 Act II's forest scene had Madge and four crones hexing it up around a caldron to make a poisoned scarf.
4 She recalls stories from the “ancient crones who chewed betel nut and spat its red juice while squatting on their haunches in the market,” and who spun stories about the dead.
5 Sometimes, they are depicted as mountain-dwelling crones shunned by society.
6 You haggle like a crone with a codfish, Lord Snow.
7 James Murdoch claimed to the MPs that this email had been concealed from him by two company executives, Crone and Myler, when he was persuaded to sign off the secret deal with Taylor.
JamesMurdoch向议员们宣称公司的两名高级管理者——Croneand Myler在说服他签署和Taylor的秘密协议时对他隐瞒了这封电子邮件。
8 Finally the crone opened her eye and lifted her arms.
9 New Orleans playwright John Biguenet's ripely poetic tale of an Appalachian crone who may or may not be a witch receives a striking West Coast premiere starring the redoubtable Jenny O'Hara.
10 "I may be an old crone but I was once a Beta Minus Beauty," said Linda.
11 Katkout finds himself sheltering at Fahd’s house and bonding with his friend’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who is a combination of crone and court jester, but whose fables help Katkout cope with his loneliness.
12 There is one holy fool, one icon painter, one crone in a headscarf.
13 Even if he is a youth of twenty he moves like an ancient crone.
他虽然只是个二十岁的青年但行动起来却像个干瘪的老太婆。
14 Seven yelled, and the crowd turned to look just as the Witchlings’ crone disguises melted away completely and their true forms were revealed.
15 On this day, one crone came in from the woods, carrying a stoat, its throat a splash of red.
16 She was considered "the old crone," mocked in a popular song: "For once he hit her with a stone, and she hit him back, and made him moan."
17 Mr Crone conveyed disdain for the MPs, particularly Tom Watson, the committee's toughest questioner.
Crone对议员们特别是委员会最强硬的质询者TomWatson表示了鄙视。
18 The old crone with the candy house in “Hansel and Gretel” isn’t impelled to cook and eat children by inner demons.
19 Kant and Crone are the watersheds in the field of human art philosophy.
在人类艺术哲学领域中,康德和克罗齐均为承上启下的,具有转折性意义的人物.
20 With her four children now grown, “I’m a crone,” she said.