crook

英 [kr?k] 美[kr?k]

TEM8GRE中低頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?crooks;第三人稱單數:?crooks;過去式:?crooked;過去分詞:?crooked;現在分詞:?crooking;

1. encroach =》crook.
2. 搞各種歪門邪道，想方設法、拐彎而抹角地騙取、欺騙。
3. 去勾引別人上當、騙別人上鉤。

crook 彎鉤，騙子

來自PIE*sker, 轉，彎，詞源同curve, crank.

crook: crook: [12] A crook ‘criminal’ is almost literally a ‘bent’ person. The underlying meaning of the word is ‘bend, curve, hook’, as can be seen in other applications such as ‘shepherd’s staff with a crooked end’, and particularly in the derivative crooked [13]. Crook was borrowed into English from Old Norse krókr ‘hook, corner’. Old French also acquired the Old Norse word, as croc, and passed it on to English in crochet, croquet, crotchet, and encroach; and the derived verbs crocher and crochier produced respectively a new noun croche ‘hook’, source of English crotch [16], and the English verb crouch [14].

Moreover, Old French also had croce, resulting from an earlier borrowing of the word’s ultimate West and North Germanic base *krukintroduced into Vulgar Latin as *croccus, and this was eventually to form the basis of English crosier [14] and perhaps lacrosse [18].
=> croquet, crosier, crotch, crotchet, crouch, encroach, lacrosse
crook (n.): early 13c., "hook-shaped instrument or weapon," from Old Norse krokr "hook, corner," cognate with Old High German kracho "hooked tool," of obscure origin but perhaps related to a widespread group of Germanic kr- words meaning "bent, hooked." Meaning "swindler" is American English, 1879, from crooked in figurative sense of "dishonest" (1708). Crook "dishonest trick" was in Middle English.

1. In his preoccupation with Robyn, Crook had neglected everything.: 克魯克一心想著羅賓，忽略了其他一切事情。

2. Crook had resigned his post rather than be party to such treachery.: 克魯克已經辭職了，不愿參與這種背信棄義的行為。

3. "We supply financial information to selected clients," Crook said loftily.: “我們的金融信息服務對象是經過挑選的客戶，”克魯克傲慢地說道。

4. Donaldson was a petty crook with a string of previous offences.: 唐納森有一系列小的犯罪前科，但沒犯過大事。