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).
雙語例句
1. It was said jokingly almost, in her grim, Italian, old crone fashion.
說這些話時也差不多像是開玩笑, 是以她那獨特的嚴峻的意大利型老大婆的方式在開玩笑.
來自教父部分
2. The old crone gabbed all day.
這老太婆整天喋喋不休.
來自辭典例句
3. Even if he is a youth of twenty he moves like an ancient crone.
他即使是二十歲的青年,行動起來也象個干癟的老太婆.
來自辭典例句
4. This crone will not be hushed up any longer.
這一罪行再也隱瞞不住了.
來自互聯網
5. You are the Crone; Queen of the world of spirits.