crone: [14] Crone has a rather macabre history. Essentially it is the same word as carrion. It began life in Latin carō ‘flesh’, which had a Vulgar Latin derivative *carōnia ‘carcass’. In Old Northern French this became carogne, which was applied metaphorically to a withered old woman (English carrion comes from the Anglo-Norman form caroine). Middle Dutch borrowed the word as croonje, applying it additionally to old ewes, and passed it on to English. => carrion
crone (n.)
late 14c., from Anglo-French carogne, from Old North French carogne, term of abuse for a cantankerous or withered woman, literally "carrion," from Vulgar Latin *caronia (see carrion).
实用例句
1. It was said jokingly almost, in her grim, Italian, old crone fashion.
说这些话时也差不多像是开玩笑, 是以她那独特的严峻的意大利型老大婆的方式在开玩笑.
来自教父部分
2. The old crone gabbed all day.
这老太婆整天喋喋不休.
来自辞典例句
3. Even if he is a youth of twenty he moves like an ancient crone.
他即使是二十岁的青年,行动起来也象个干瘪的老太婆.
来自辞典例句
4. This crone will not be hushed up any longer.
这一罪行再也隐瞒不住了.
来自互联网
5. You are the Crone; Queen of the world of spirits.
