craven

• adj.臆病な
• n. 臆病者
• n.（クレイヴン）人名；（伊）クレイヴン；（英）クレイヴン

語源は不明。おそらく語源はcrep（折る、裂く）で、語源的にはdecompit（不一致）と同じ。 もともとは「負ける」だったが、のちに「おびえる」、つまり臆病になった。

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.

1. A neighbour saw her talking with Craven .

ある隣人は彼女がクレインと話しているのを見た。

2.I had no doubt that the craven fellow would be only too pleased to back out.

臆病なやつが手を放すことができないのを疑うことはない。

3.They condemned the deal as a craven surrender.

彼らはこの取引が無気力な投降行為であると非難した。

4.Jonathan Craven was the second person hired at Chesapeake Capital.

ジョナサン？カルバンはチェサピーク資金の2番目に採用された従業員です。

5.No man wants to be thought a craven person.

弱い人と思われたい人はいません。