crone

英 [krəʊn] 美 [kron]

crone　枯容（面容枯槁）　= 皱皮老太婆。

crone 丑陋的老太婆

词源同carrion, 腐肉。

crone: 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).

1. It was said jokingly almost, in her grim, Italian, old crone fashion.: 说这些话时也差不多像是开玩笑, 是以她那独特的严峻的意大利型老大婆的方式在开玩笑.

3. Even if he is a youth of twenty he moves like an ancient crone.: 他即使是二十岁的青年,行动起来也象个干瘪的老太婆.