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- the hooked staff of a shepherd（牧羊人的）曲柄杖。
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- a bishop's crozier（主教的）权杖。
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- a bend in something, especially at the elbow in a person's arm弯曲部分（尤指胳膊肘处的弯曲处）：
her head was cradled in the crook of Luke's left arm.
她的头枕在卢克的左胳膊的臂弯里。
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- informal a person who is dishonest or a criminal〈非正式〉骗子; 罪犯。
with obj.
- bend (something, especially a finger as a signal)使弯曲（尤指作为信号将手指弯曲起来）：
he crooked a finger for the waitress.
他向女服务员弯弯手指, 让她过来。
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- Austral./ NZ informal (especially of a situation) bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory〈澳/新西兰, 非正式〉（尤指情况）糟糕的; 令人不快的; 令人不满的：
it was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s.
20世纪70年代早期, 这块地简直糟透了。
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- (of a person or a part of the body) unwell or injured（人或身体的某部位）有病的; 受伤的：
a crook knee
受伤的膝盖。
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- dishonest; illegal不诚实的; 非法的：
some pretty crook things went on there.
那儿发生了一些在相当程度上是违法的事情。
ORIGIN: late 19th cent.:abbreviation of CROOKED
短语
be crook on
- Austral./NZ informal be annoyed by〈澳/新西兰, 非正式〉对…发火（或生气）：
you're crook on me because I didn't walk out with you.
因为我没有和你一起去罢工, 你在对我生气。
go crook
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- Austral./ NZ informal lose one's temper〈澳/新西兰, 非正式〉发脾气。
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- become ill生病。
派生词
crookery
noun词源
Middle English （in the sense 'hooked tool or weapon'）： from Old Norse krókr 'hook'. A noun sense 'deceit, guile, trickery' （compare with CROOKED） was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th cent.