crony

英 [ˈkrəʊni]

美 [ˈkroʊni]

n.  好友; 密友

复数：cronies　

Collins.1 / BNC.19233 / COCA.13579

牛津词典

noun

• 好友；密友
  a person that sb spends a lot of time with
  1. He was playing cards with his cronies.
     他当时正与他那些狐朋狗友玩牌。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 好友;密友;(尤指)狐朋狗友
  You can refer to friends that someone spends a lot of time with as theircronies, especially when you disapprove of them.
  1. He returned from a lunchtime drinking session with his business cronies.
     中午跟那帮生意上的朋友喝完酒后，他回来了。

英英释义

noun

• a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
  Synonym:buddybrotherchumpalsidekick

双语例句

• In her late sixties she traveled over Europe with a crony of equal years.
  在接近古稀之年，她同一个与她同年的密友漫游欧洲。
• We kept our heads low and continued to do our business; 2008-09 was the height of the crony regime, unless you played their game you were outcast.
  我们放低姿态继续经营自己的业务；2008至2009年间是政府结党营私最为严重的时期，如果你不参与他们的游戏，你就将遭到排斥。
• Crony capitalism and self-fulfilling expectations by international creditors are often suggested as two rival explanations for currency crisis.
  亲密资本和预期自致型模型被认为是对货币危机的两个典型的对立的解释。
• Returned the really astonished Passepartout, recognizing his crony of the` Mongolia '.
  路路通非常惊奇地回答说，他认出了这位在蒙古号上跟他同船的旅伴。
• Your crony factor ( 10%): do you play quoits with Mr. roover?
  亲信因素（10%）：你会跟鲁弗先生玩套圈游戏吗？
• Once achieved, the whole apparatus of state ( and the vested interests and crony capitalism that flourished then) was essentially wired to maintain the status quo, and do so regardless of performance.
  一旦拥有了权力，整个国家机器（以及当时繁荣昌盛的特权阶级和裙带资本主义）会从根本上进入维持现状的状态，无论执政者们表现如何都将一如既往地运作。
• Instead, Republicans were sure to include code words to subtly identify the incumbent's alleged failures: defeatism, crony capitalism, ad hoc responses, bureaucrats and the like.
  相反，共和党人肯定会用一些代名词隐晦地指出现任总统的所谓失败，比如失败主义、裙带资本主义、特别回应、官僚等等。
• In modern India, rent-seeking takes the form of endemic corruption and the crony capitalism that describes too-close relationships between big business and the state.
  在现代印度，寻租的形式是普遍的腐败和裙带资本主义大企业和政府的关系过于密切。
• Crony capitalism is very different from the market economy.
  裙带资本主义与市场经济相去甚远。
• By contrast in Ukraine, as in Russia, crony capitalism took hold.
  相比之下，乌克兰就像在俄罗斯那样，裙带资本主义生根发芽。