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

• Follow Austin Creek for a few miles.
  沿着奥斯汀河走上几英里。
• Oh my god, she fell in that creek.
  天哪，她掉到河里了。哦，没有哦。撑住。我回来了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I was up the creek last month.
  上个月我遭遇了险境。
• Spent the night at Rock Creek park.
  在岩溪国家公园过了一夜。
• 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 rubbish had dammed up the creek so that it had overflowed.
  垃圾堵塞了河流，致使溪水外溢。