creek

英 [kriːk]

美 [kriːk]

n.  小海湾; 小港湾; 小河; 小溪

复数：creeks　

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习惯用语

n.

up the creek (without a paddle)
• 处于困境（或窘境）
  in a difficult or bad situation
• I was really up the creek without my car.
  离了我那辆汽车真是不方便。

牛津词典

noun

• 小海湾；小港湾
  a narrow area of water where the sea flows into the land
• 小河；小溪
  a small river or stream

柯林斯词典

• 小海湾;小港湾
  Acreekis a narrow place where the sea comes a long way into the land.
• N-COUNT 小河;小溪
  Acreekis a small stream or river.
  1. Follow Austin Creek for a few miles.
     沿着奥斯汀河走上几英里。
• 处于困境(或窘境);犯错误
  If someone isup the creek, they are in a bad or difficult situation, or are wrong in some way. You can also say that someone isup the creek without a paddle.

英英释义

noun

• a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
  1. the creek dried up every summer
  Synonym:brook

双语例句

• They used to take off their clothes and go skinny dipping in the creek.
  他们以前常常脱了衣服在小河里裸泳。
• I'll be up the creek if I don't pass this history test.
  我若不能通过这次历史考试，麻烦可就大了。
• When I got to Crow Creek, Magpie was not home. I talked to his wife Amelia.
  我到鸭溪时，喜鹊没在家，我和他的妻子阿米莉亚谈了谈。
• He was transferred to Shoal Creek Mental Institution for an indefinite period
  他被转到了肖尔溪精神病院，要在那里无限期地呆下去。
• So our plan to catchthe Mill Creek killer was ruinedby the hollow man?
  所以我们抓磨溪杀手的计划被空心人给搅了？
• The rubbish had dammed up the creek so that it had overflowed.
  垃圾堵塞了河流，致使溪水外溢。
• Their daughter Margaret died at sand creek.
  他们的女儿玛格丽特已经在桑德克里克死了。
• "We would be neglecting our people's best interests if we opposed Otter Creek," he said.
  “我们将是忽视我们的人民的最佳利益，如果我们反对水獭溪，”他说。
• They'll spend some time floating boats in the creek.
  他们打算花些时间在溪流里放船模。。
• We saw one of them trying to wade across a creek.
  我们看见他们中有一个人试图涉水过一条小溪。