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

• Critics say that the government restaffed the firm with incompetent cronies and placemen.
  批判者指责政府重新雇佣的人员都是些无能的废物。
• A farewell drink with his cronies.
  与他的密友们喝的告别酒。
• 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。
• 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。
• But sanctions that penalise members of the former junta and their cronies should stay, until there is more evidence that the military men really are ready to cede power.
  但是对前军政府成员及其密友的制裁应该保留，直到有更多的证据表明军人们真正准备放弃权力。
• 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。
• It would be wrong to oust Russia from the International Monetary Fund or stop its membership of the World Trade Organisation, because open markets and international standards will only expose Mr Putin and his cronies.
  迫使俄罗斯退出国际货币基金组织（imf）或阻止其加入世界贸易组织（wto）将是错误的，因为开放的市场和国际准则反会让普京及其亲信暴露在世人面前。
• The old man's former cronies are all dead.
  老人的往日故旧都已作古。
• Businessmen may be worthy of government grants. But Americans are more likely to call them cronies than entrepreneurs.
  商人也许值得接受政府资助，但美国人更可能会把他们称为亲信而不是企业家。