Creature
['kriːtʃə] or ['kritʃɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a human being; `wight' is an archaic term.
(noun.) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else.
霍奇编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
(n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
(n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
(n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
校对:斯宾塞
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Being (animate or inanimate), thing, substance, body, created being.[2]. Animal, living being.[3]. Man, person.[4]. Dependant, retainer, vassal, parasite, minion, hanger-on.
手打:凯勒
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Being, animal, thing, body, brute
ANT:Chimera, ghost, bugbear
校对:马里恩
例句:
- How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Do hear the horrid creature talk! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- And who is that nice good-natured looking creature with her--a flame of yours? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Evelyn was the only mirthful creature present: he sat on Clara's lap; and, making matter of glee from his own fancies, laughed aloud. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Such a poor weak little creature! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- I wondered, as I looked at this fair creature: I admired her with my whole heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- No, no,' pleaded the absurd creature. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- But some sense that perhaps the economic man is not a self-evident creature seems to have touched our author. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Try it,' said the little creature, with an excited and exultant face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The poor creature interrupted me with loud sobs, which produced such a dreadful fit of coughing, I thought that she would have expired on the spot. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered, vaguely, why she was so deeply moved--so anxious to know the whereabouts of this strange creature. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Now, said the physician, we must turn all these creatures out; all depends on his being kept quiet. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- But think of all these poor creatures, said Cassy. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Mercenary creatures ask, 'What is the use of a man's going to the North Pole? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- What strange creatures brothers are! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- His resolutions and actions affect a greater number of his fellow-creatures. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Why, said Miss Ophelia, bluntly, I suppose you think your servants are human creatures, and ought to have some rest when they are tired. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- What a plague those creatures are--staring at me so! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- And what is each human being worth, if he do not put forth his strength to aid his fellow-creatures? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Relieve us from this fear, and we shall be the happiest creatures in the world. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
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