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

• He was playing cards with his cronies.
  他当时正与他那些狐朋狗友玩牌。
• So he devised a plan and hired some cronies to help him.
  因此他制定了计划并雇了一些亲信来帮助他。
• Depriving Mr Mugabe's cronies of trips to a decent country that works could have a salutary effect.
  禁止穆加贝先生的手下到别的国家访问会带来很好的效果。
• 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。
•   When I started writing about Whitehall for the FT my column was full of stories about how civil servants had been sidelined under Labour, their role as advisers usurped by a few prime ministerial cronies.
  当我开始为英国《金融时报》撰写有关白厅的报道时，我的专栏里满是有关工党执政时期公务员是如何受到冷落的报道，他们作为顾问的角色被一小撮首相的密友们所篡夺。
• The minister's always doing favours for his cronies.
  部长总是给他那伙老朋友好处。
• A farewell drink with his cronies.
  与他的密友们喝的告别酒。
• 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。
• 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”。
• He enjoyed drinking and jesting with his cronies
  他喜欢和老朋友喝喝酒、开开玩笑。