creek

英 [kriːk]

美 [kriːk]

n.  小海湾; 小港湾; 小河; 小溪

复数：creeks　

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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.
  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。
• She found out and I'm up shit creek.
  现在老婆发现了，我现在惨了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They build dams that cause the creek to flood.
  人们建造了拦堤坝，导致小溪里的水泛滥成灾。
• There is a creek behind the house in summer, I often go swimming in the creek.
  屋子后面有一条小溪，夏天我常常到小溪中去游泳。
• 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。
• 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。
• Where is the crane standing in the creek I can't see it.
  站在溪流中的鹤在哪里我看不到！