craven

英 ['kre?v(?)n] 美['krevn]

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

副詞:?cravenly;

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”-----問哭了，問都能問哭，是不是很膽小、懦弱啊。
3. cra- => cry (哭), -ven (拼音“問”) => 哭問，哭著問，小學(xué)生很膽怯，問老師都哭.

craven 膽小的

詞源不詳。可能來自詞根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。

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.

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.

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.