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

Given the dual voting share structures and crony boards that exist at the likes of Google and Facebook, that is a serious stricture.
考虑到谷歌（Google）、Facebook等美国公司存在的双重投票权结构以及董事会成员间的密友关系，这是一项非常严厉的批评。
Once achieved, the whole apparatus of state ( and the vested interests and crony capitalism that flourished then) was essentially wired to maintain the status quo, and do so regardless of performance.
一旦拥有了权力，整个国家机器（以及当时繁荣昌盛的特权阶级和裙带资本主义）会从根本上进入维持现状的状态，无论执政者们表现如何都将一如既往地运作。
Your crony factor ( 10%): do you play quoits with Mr. roover?
亲信因素（10%）：你会跟鲁弗先生玩套圈游戏吗？
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。
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。
Crony capitalism is very different from the market economy.
裙带资本主义与市场经济相去甚远。
Detractors see the bank as a symbol of crony capitalism because of its support for companies such as Boeing.
由于该行对波音（Boeing）等企业的支持，贬低者们将该行视为裙带资本主义的象征。
The country must move from what the report calls "crony capitalism and petty corruption" to something different.
印度必须改变报告称之为“裙带资本主义和轻度腐败”的现象。
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。