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crook
时间: 2023-06-04 20:52:32
高中六级考博GRE
英 [krʊk]
美 [krʊk]

n. 曲柄杖;骗子;罪犯;权杖;弯曲部分

v. 使弯曲

adj. 糟糕的;令人不快的;令人不满的;受伤的;有病的;不诚实的;非法的

短语搭配
双语例句
  • The crook was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

    那个骗子被判了三年徒刑。

  • You should crook your arm to swing the racket.

    你应该弯曲胳膊来挥动球拍。

  • The environment of this restaurant is crook.

    这个餐厅的环境很糟。

  • These politicians are just a bunch of crooks.

    这些政客不过是一帮骗子

  • That salesman is a real crook.

    那推销员真是个骗子。

  • It could be they trust each other, but do you trust a crook?

    可能他们互相信任,但你相信一个骗子吗?

  • Both failed in Mr. Madoff's case, but that doesn't mean everyone is a crook.

    这两点在马多夫案中都是失败的,但这并不意味着每个人都是骗子。

  • The salesman had an honest appearing face, but he was a crook from the word go.

    这位推销员长着一副诚实的脸孔,但从一开始他就是个骗子。

  • He's a crook. He betrayed me, for next to nothing he made me make a fool of myself with a woman.

    他是一个骗子。他背叛了我,他让我在一个女人面前出洋相,几乎一文不值。

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同根词

词根 crook

单词辨析
  • 弯;弯曲

    curve指变成曲线或弧线状的动作或状态。

    crook指不规则的弯曲,也指按照规则或模型弯曲某物。

    twist指通过转动、拧或扭使某物成弯曲状。

    bend普通用词,指把某物变成曲线或角形。用于人时,指头部或身躯弯下。

    bow指把头部或上身弯向前方的动作,也指社交中的礼节性动作。

释义
n.

the hooked staff of a shepherd

(牧羊人的)曲柄杖。

a bishop's crozier

(主教的)权杖。

a bend in something, especially at the elbow in a person's arm

弯曲部分(尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处)

  • her head was cradled in the crook of Luke's left arm.

    她的头枕在卢克的左胳膊的臂弯里。

informal a person who is dishonest or a criminal

〈非 正式〉  骗子;罪犯。

v.

bend (something, especially a finger as a signal)

使弯曲(尤指作为信号将手指弯曲起来)

  • he crooked a finger for the waitress.

    他向女服务员弯弯手指,让她过来。

adj.

Austral./ NZ informal (especially of a situation) bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory

〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉  (尤指情况)糟糕的;令人不快的;令人不满的

  • it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s.

    20世纪70年代早期,这块地简直糟透了。

(of a person or a part of the body)unwell or injured

(人或身体的某部位)有病的;受伤的

  • a crook knee

    受伤的膝盖。

dishonest;illegal

不诚实的;非法的

  • some pretty crook things went on there.

    那儿发生了一些在相当程度上是违法的事情。[ORIGIN: late 19th cent.:abbreviation of <Bold>CROOKED</Bold>] .

短语
  • be crook on Austral.NZ informal be annoyed by 〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉 对…发火(或生气) you're crook on me because I didn't walk out with you. 因为我没有和你一起去罢工,你在对我生气

  • go crook Austral.NZ informal lose one's temper 〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉 发脾气

  • become ill 生病

易错必背词
词源

"Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook'. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery' (compare with CROOKED) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th cent."

  • Huh, it might have even given pause to an old crook like him.

    可能他那样的老坏蛋都会觉得犹豫呢。

    《House of Cards Season 4》《纸牌屋 第四季》

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