creek
英 [kriːk]
美 [kriːk]
n. 小海湾; 小港湾; 小河; 小溪
复数:creeks
Collins.1 / BNC.11888 / COCA.4931
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.- Follow Austin Creek for a few miles.
沿着奥斯汀河走上几英里。
- Follow Austin Creek for a few miles.
- 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)
- the creek dried up every summer
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。