Creep
[kriːp] or [krip]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.
(noun.) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation.
(noun.) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
(verb.) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); 'ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings'.
爱德华整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
(v. t.) To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.
(v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.
(v. t.) To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
(v. t.) To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.
(v. t.) To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.
(v. t.) To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.
(v. i.) To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
(n.) The act or process of creeping.
(n.) A distressing sensation, or sound, like that occasioned by the creeping of insects.
(n.) A slow rising of the floor of a gallery, occasioned by the pressure of incumbent strata upon the pillars or sides; a gradual movement of mining ground.
手打:柯尔斯顿
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Crawl.[2]. Steal, glide stealthily, come unnoticed.[3]. Fawn, cringe, play the sycophant.
詹妮整理
解釋/意思:
v.i. to move on the belly like a snake: to move slowly: to grow along the ground or on supports as a vine: to fawn or cringe: to have the physical sensation of something creeping over or under the skin: to shudder at from fear or repugnance: to drag with a creeper as a river-bottom:—pr.p. creep′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. crept.—ns. Creep′er a creeping plant: a genus of small climbing birds; Creep′-hole a hole into which to creep: a subterfuge; Creep′ie a low stool the old Scotch stool of repentance.—adv. Creep′ingly.—adj. Creep′y.
约瑟夫編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was ten o'clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn't married a Negress Slave at once? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- What with your looks and your questions, upon my soul, you make my flesh creep! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- When the village had taken its poor supper, it did not creep to bed, as it usually did, but came out of doors again, and remained there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The expression of his eyes made her soul sick, and her flesh creep. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Everything was gone, walled in, with spikes on top of the walls, and one must ignominiously creep between the spiky walls through a labyrinth of life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Many errors might creep in by such a system. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I saw her innocently kiss her chosen husband on the cheek, and creep close to his bluff form as if it were her best support. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- At length he summoned me by a low, S-s-t, and I crept toward the sound of his voice to find him kneeling on the brink of an opening in the floor. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Jo started up, revived the blaze, and crept to the bedside, hoping Beth slept. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- An instant later steps crept down the passage--steps which were meant to be silent, but which reverberated harshly through the empty house. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Can it be a wandering dog that has come in from the street and crept and nestled hither? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She crept to her couch, chill and dejected. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He crept closer through the trees until he was quite close above them. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Presently Charley came creeping back to my side and said, Oh, don't cry, if you please, miss. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The brute tried to force an entrance; but presently this ceased, and again she heard the great pads creeping stealthily around the cabin. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Creeping on where time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Resolute, however, to rejoin him, I penetrated the living barrier, creeping under where I could not get between or over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My life creeps like a snail. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I don't sleep at night, and in the afternoon a dreadful drowsiness creeps over me. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Now the trouble with such an idol is that autobiography creeps in anyway. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She was constantly complaining of the cold, and of its occasioning a visitation in her back which she called 'the creeps'. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The hermit Secretary, who creeps up and down the back stairs, and is never seen! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
整理:威尔伯