crooked [ 'krukid] a.弯的，歪的；畸形的
crook [ kruk] v．使弯曲
crooked [ 'krukid] adj．弯曲的，扭曲的
crook 弯曲木
by hook or by crook 不择手段
long crooked squash 菜瓜
他性格乖张。
He's crooked. *crook 原意是thief，即“小偷”、“骗子”。crooked表示“性格孤僻”、“乖张”。
He's crooked. (他性格乖张。)
But I like him. (可我喜欢他。)
He's a scammer. *俚语。
He's a crook.
He's a con man. *俚语。
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
正人先正己。
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
身正不怕影子斜。
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
正人先正己。
Straight trees have crooked roots.
直树也有曲根。
There is a crook in the lot of everyone.
人生皆有不如意处。
crooked a.有钩的;弯曲的;秘密造的
by hook or by crook无论如何
I've gotta finish this by five o'clock, by hook or by crook.
无论如何我都得在5点前把它做完。
by hook or by crook 不择手段
- by hook or by crook 千方百计得，不择手段得
He rose to that position by hook or by crook.
不正派 crooked
不择手段 [bù zé shǒu duàn] /by fair means or foul/by hook or by crook/unscrupulously/
挛 [luán] /twisted/bent/crooked/cramped/
曲 [qū] /bent/crooked/wrong/
屈曲 [qū qū] /crooked/
委 [wēi] /crooked/
{adj: asymmetrical, crooked} irregular in shape or outline
"asymmetrical features"
"a dress with an crooked hemline"
{adj: crooked, corrupt} not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
<-> straight
{adj: crooked} having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
"crooked country roads"
"crooked teeth"
<-> straight
{adj: distortable} capable of having the meaning altered or twisted
"our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature"
{adj: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked} having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
"a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
{adj: malposed} characterized by malposition
"crooked malposed teeth"
{adj: straight, square} characterized by honesty and fairness
"straight dealing"
"a square deal"
<-> crooked
{adj: straight} having no deviations
"straight lines"
"straight roads across the desert"
"straight teeth"
"straight shoulders"
<-> crooked
{adv: by hook or by crook, by any means} in any way necessary
"I'll pass this course by hook or by crook"
{adv: lopsidedly, crookedly} in a crooked lopsided manner
"he smiled lopsidedly"
{n: Crescentia, genus Crescentia} a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches
{n: Crookes radiometer} electromagnetic radiometer consisting of a small paddlewheel that rotates when placed in daylight
{n: Crookes tube} the original gas-discharge cathode-ray tube
{n: Crookes, William Crookes, Sir William Crookes} English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)
{n: Oregon white oak, Oregon oak, Garry oak, Quercus garryana} small deciduous tree of western North America with crooked branches and pale grey bark
{n: bend, crook, twist, turn} a circular segment of a curve
"a bend in the road"
"a crook in the path"
{n: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor} someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
{n: crook, shepherd's crook} a long staff with one end being hook shaped
{n: crooked-stemmed aster} a variety of aster
{n: crookedness} having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
<-> straightness
{n: crosier, crozier} a staff surmounted by a crook or cross carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office
{n: headlock} a wrestling hold in which the opponent's head is locked between the crook of your elbow and the side of your body
{n: hook, crotchet} a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
{n: krummhorn, crumhorn, cromorne} a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)
{n: river red gum, river gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus rostrata} somewhat crooked red gum tree growing chiefly along rivers; has durable reddish lumber used in heavy construction
{n: straightness} freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles
<-> crookedness
{n: streamer fly} an artificial fly that has wings extending back beyond the crook of the fishhook
{v: assure, tell} inform positively and with certainty and confidence
"I tell you that man is a crook!"
{v: crook, curve} bend or cause to bend
"He crooked his index finger"
"the road curved sharply"
{v: flex, bend, deform, twist, turn} cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form
"bend the rod"
"twist the dough into a braid"
"the strong man could turn an iron bar"
<-> unbend
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