craven

英['kreɪv(ə)n] 美['krevn]

反义词

副词: cravenly;

1. crave => craven: 形容以恳求、渴求的方式求饶的那种状态。
2. 谐音“哭了问”-----问哭了，问都能问哭，是不是很胆小、懦弱啊。
3. cra- => cry (哭), -ven (拼音“问”) => 哭问，哭着问，小学生很胆怯，问老师都哭.

craven 胆小的

词源不详。可能来自词根crep, 破碎，劈里叭啦，词源同decrepit, discrepancy. 原指被打败的，后指被打怕的，因而胆小的。

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.: 我毫不怀疑那个胆小的家伙巴不得撒手退出呢.

4. Jonathan Craven was the second person hired at Chesapeake Capital.: 乔纳森?卡文是切萨皮克资金第二个聘用的员工.