crooks
英 [krʊks]
美 [krʊks]
n. 骗子; 臂弯; 肘弯; (旧时牧羊人捕羊的)曲柄杖
v. (手指或手臂)弯曲
crook的第三人称单数和复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 骗子;罪犯
Acrookis a dishonest person or a criminal.- The man is a crook and a liar...
那人是个骗子,满嘴谎言。 - Donaldson was a petty crook with a string of previous offences.
唐纳森有一系列小的犯罪前科,但没犯过大事。
- The man is a crook and a liar...
- N-COUNT (肘或膝盖的)内侧
The crook ofyour arm or leg is the soft inside part where you bend your elbow or knee.- She hid her face in the crook of her arm.
她把脸掩在臂弯里。
- She hid her face in the crook of her arm.
- VERB 弯曲(手臂或手指)
If youcrookyour arm or finger, you bend it.- He crooked his finger: 'Come forward,' he said.
他勾勾手指说:“过来。”
- He crooked his finger: 'Come forward,' he said.
- N-COUNT (主教或牧羊人用的)曲柄杖
Acrookis a long pole with a large hook at the end. A crook is carried by a bishop in religious ceremonies, or by a shepherd.- ...a shepherd's crook.
牧羊人的曲柄杖
- ...a shepherd's crook.
- PHRASE 想方设法;不择手段
If someone says they will do somethingby hook or by crook, they are determined to do it, even if they have to make a great effort or use dishonest means.- They intend to get their way, by hook or by crook.
为达到目的,他们不择手段。
- They intend to get their way, by hook or by crook.
双语例句
- Then, you set up your policies and your rules as if they're all lying, cheating crooks.
而在制定公司的政策和规定时,又必须把他们想象成谎话连篇、欺诈成性的恶棍。 - If the prevailing assumption is that people are crooks, more and more of them will be crooks.
如果这种流行的设想是:人们都是骗子,那么他们中越来越多的人就会沦为骗子。 - Let the crooks go bankrupt.
让骗子们破产去吧! - The police arrested a fall guy. The real crooks are still free.
警察逮到一个替死鬼。真正的歹徒仍逍遥法外。 - The crooks got away with ie the criminals stole most of the money.
那坏蛋把那笔钱的大部分都偷走了。 - Watch out for crooks who are waiting to use your credit card to do some big shopping.
提防小人的人正等着利用你的信用卡做一些大的购物中心。 - Almost all checks crooks wind up in jail.
几乎所有开空头支票的骗子都落到了锒铛入狱的下场。 - They're a bunch of crooks.
他们是一伙骗子。 - We're not going to stand back and let those crooks get away with murder.
我们不会撒手不管让那些骗子逍遥法外。 - They thought they could manipulate me, but I proved them wrong and used the crooks instead.
他们认为他们可以操纵我,但我证明他们错了,并用,而不是骗子。