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

• Only thing failing is crony capitalism and socialism.
  只有裙带资本主义和社会主义才失败。
• 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。
• Chapter two introduces the cause-and-effect relationship between moral hazards and the Asian financial turmoil and thinks that the senses of Asian value and crony capitalism have put the moral hazard of agents to the extreme.
  第二章介绍了道德风险与亚洲金融危机之间的生成关系，而亚洲价值观与裙带资本主义更是将代理人的道德风险推行极致。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even in East Asia, crony capitalism, and not open capital accounts, was seen as the cause of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.
  即使在东亚，裙带资本主义（而非开放的资本账户）被视为导致1997/98年亚洲金融危机的原因。
• Under Mr Medvedev, Russia's system of crony capitalism, entrenched corruption, a powerful security service and the absence of any rule of law has continued unchecked.
  在梅德韦杰夫任期，对于俄罗斯的裙带资本主义，根深蒂固的腐败，强有力的安全保障和对法律的缺失没有多少作为。
• 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。
• To be pro-business means allowing politicians and officials to retain authority over economic decisions, leading to crony capitalism.
  支持企业意味着让政客和官员保留经济决策大权，从而滋生裙带资本主义。