- a pencil or stick of coloured chalk or wax, used for drawing(绘画用的)彩色粉笔; 彩色蜡笔。
with obj.
- draw with a crayon or crayons用彩色粉笔(或蜡笔)画:
Will crayoned a picture on a legal pad
威尔在标准拍纸簿上用彩色蜡笔画了一幅画
no obj. a child crayoning in a colouring book一个在着色簿上用彩色蜡笔画画的小孩。
词源
mid 17th cent.:from French, from craie 'chalk', from Latin creta.