crony

• n. 密友；好朋友

来自词根chrono, 时间，见chronicle, chronology.

1. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

crony

crony: [17] Crony originated as a piece of Cambridge university slang. Originally written chrony, it was based on Greek khrónios ‘longlasting’, a derivative of khrónos ‘time’ (source of English chronicle, chronology, chronic, etc), and seems to have been intended to mean ‘friend of long-standing’, or perhaps ‘contemporary’. The first recorded reference to it is in the diary of Samuel Pepys, a Cambridge man: ‘Jack Cole, my old school-fellow … who was a great chrony of mine’, 30 May 1665.
=> chronic, chronicle, chronology

crony (n.)

1660s, Cambridge student slang, probably from Greek khronios "long-lasting," from khronos "time" (see chrono-), and with a sense of "old friend," or "contemporary."

He was playing cards with his cronies.

他当时正与他那些狐朋狗友玩牌。

牛津词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In her late sixties she traveled over Europe with a crony of equal years.

在接近古稀之年,她同一个与她同年的密友漫游欧洲.

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