cronies

英 [ˈkrəʊniz]

美 [ˈkroʊniz]

n.  好友; 密友
crony的复数

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。

双语例句

• She was a veteran too, but she had no cronies with whom she could refight old battles.
  她也是个老兵。不过她不能和亲密的伙伴来重温往日的战斗了。
• He says the Kurdish government allowed cronies to profit from an oil deal, which should have been strictly between Kurdistan and the foreign oil company that won the contract.
  他说，库尔德政府允许他们的亲友从一项石油协议中获利。这本来应该是库尔德地区和外国石油公司之间的协议。
• He was sharing a nocturnal poker game with out-of-town cronies from another utility.
  他正同几位来自外地的另一家公用公司的老朋友打扑克。
• 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。
• We think it was John and some of his cronies that did it.
  我认为这是约翰和他的一些密友们干的事。
• As prime minister from 2001 to 2006, he was accused of using his power to favour the businesses of his family and associated cronies, while Thai police were blamed for thousands of extra-judicial killings in the name of a war on drugs.
  在2001至2006年担任总理期间，他信被控利用职权偏袒其家族企业和裙带关系，同时泰国警方被指责假借打击贩毒之名非法杀害了数千人。
• Mr Buffett told the rich that, instead of giving their wealth to "a bunch of old cronies", they should shop around for the best foundations.
  巴菲特先生告诉有钱人们，他们应该为自己的财富找一个最好的基金会，而不是交给“一帮老伙计们”。
• So when I met two old flying cronies for lunch, I asked them the same question.
  当我和两位资深空姐用午餐时，索兴问她们同样的问题。
• The minister's always doing favours for his cronies.
  部长总是给他那伙老朋友好处。
• I was in no position to shake the proffered hand when the leader introduced himself and his cronies.
  首领自我介绍，然后介绍他的队员，但这时我着实不方便去握住他伸出来的那只手。