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

• 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。
• 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。
• The second kind of barrier to entry is that of crony capitalism.
  第二个准入壁垒是裙带资本主义。
• The country must move from what the report calls "crony capitalism and petty corruption" to something different.
  印度必须改变报告称之为“裙带资本主义和轻度腐败”的现象。
• 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。
• Yet, because Navis does not like to be involved with government in any way-for example, heavily regulated, quasi-private or crony companies-its corporate universe in south-east Asia is relatively limited.
  不过，由于Navis不喜欢以任何方式与政府打交道例如，受到严格监管、准私营或与政府关系密切的企业因此该公司面对的东南亚企业相对有限。
• ( Since being deposed, he's had a brother-in-law, a younger sister, and a close business crony in the seat of power).
  （自被罢免之后，他信的姐夫、妹妹和商业密友曾先后执掌政权）。
• Some of these funds will invest wisely, but many will pursue non-commercial goals, from job creation to crony enrichment.
  这些基金有的被有效地投资，但是很多则被用于非商业目的，从创造就业到中饱私囊。
• Their fortunes were also boosted by monopolistic power and crony capitalism.
  而垄断力量和权贵资本主义也增加了他们的财富。
• 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。