craven
英['kre?v(?)n]
美['krevn]
- adj. 畏縮的；怯懦的
- n. 懦夫
- n. (Craven)人名；(意)克拉文；(英)克雷文
詞態(tài)變化
副詞:?cravenly;
助記提示
1. crave => craven: 形容以懇求、渴求的方式求饒的那種狀態(tài)。
2. 諧音“哭了問(wèn)”-----問(wèn)哭了，問(wèn)都能問(wèn)哭，是不是很膽小、懦弱啊。
3. cra- => cry (哭), -ven (拼音“問(wèn)”) => 哭問(wèn)，哭著問(wèn)，小學(xué)生很膽怯，問(wèn)老師都哭.
中文詞源
craven 膽小的
詞源不詳。可能來(lái)自詞根crep, 破碎，劈里叭啦，詞源同decrepit, discrepancy. 原指被打敗的，后指被打怕的，因而膽小的。
英文詞源
- craven
- craven: [13] Craven originally meant simply ‘defeated’, and only gradually came to have the pejorative sense ‘cowardly’. It probably came from Old French cravante ‘defeated’, the past participle of the verb cravanter, which in turn came via Vulgar Latin *crepantāre from Latin crepāre; this meant ‘creak, rattle, crack’ (hence the English technical term crepitation [17]) but also secondarily ‘burst’ or ‘break’.
=> crepitation, crevice, decrepit - craven (adj.)
- early 13c., cravant, perhaps from Old French crevante "defeated," past participle of cravanter "to strike down, to fall down," from Latin crepare "to crack, creak." Sense affected by crave and moved from "defeated" to "cowardly" (c. 1400) perhaps via intermediary sense of "confess oneself defeated." Related: Cravenly; cravenness.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. A neighbour saw her talking with Craven.
- 一個(gè)鄰居看見(jiàn)她在和克雷文交談。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. I had no doubt that the craven fellow would be only too pleased to back out.
- 我毫不懷疑那個(gè)膽小的家伙巴不得撒手退出呢.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. They condemned the deal as a craven surrender.
- 他們譴責(zé)這筆交易為毫無(wú)志氣的投降行為。
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. Jonathan Craven was the second person hired at Chesapeake Capital.
- 喬納森?卡文是切薩皮克資金第二個(gè)聘用的員工.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. No man wants to be thought a craven person.
- 沒(méi)有人愿意被認(rèn)為是懦弱的人.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)