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

• She drove the pigs down to the Creek for a bath.
  她把猪赶到小河里去洗澡。
• 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 man had fallen into the creek and had sprained his ankle.
  那人掉进了小溪，把脚踝扭伤了。
• I used to go down to the creek and play with frogs.
  我过去常常到小溪里和青蛙玩。
• I took the young Irish setter for a walk up the road and along a frozen creek.
  我带着我那条幼小的爱尔兰犬猎犬，沿着大路和一条冰冻的小溪散步。
• The other in Rock Creek park.
  另一个是在岩溪国家公园。
• 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。
• One evening, crossing a small creek, he pulled the car off the road.
  一天傍晚，他驶过一条小溪后把车停在了路边。
• You can find different kinds of fish and calms in the creek.
  你可以在小河中找到不同种类的鱼和蚌壳。
• 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。