creek是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)be up shit creek处在尴尬的困境中

(2)be up the creek without a paddle处于困境之中

(3)be up the creek informal处于困境之中

(4)be up shit creek without a paddle处在尴尬的困境中

(5)tidal creek潮沟；潮汐

(6)creek bed河床；溪床；小溪的河床

(7)a dry creek一条干涸的小溪；一个干枯的河床；一条干涸的小河

双语例句

(1)The tranquil creek is the place I spend summer holiday.

那个宁静的小港就是我度暑假的地方。

(2)There is a creek in front of my house.

我家门前有一条小溪。

(3)The Creek people were moved to the Indian Reserve in the 1830s.

克里克族在19世纪30年代被移屣至印第安保护区。

(4)You can see many fish in the creek.

你在小溪里能看到很多鱼

(5)A creek is a narrow place where the sea comes a long way into the land.

小湾指的是一个狭窄的地方 海水从其中经过很长的一段距离后进入陆地

(6)Canadian comedy Schitt's Creek won every single comedy award, but HBO's Watchmen took home the most awards.

加拿大喜剧《富家穷路》包揽喜剧类全部奖项，HBO的《守望者》则收获了最多的奖项。

(7)I'll bet we could find some at North Creek—in the mine.

我打赌我们能在小溪北边的矿井里面找到一些。

(8)Wombat Creek Winery is an independent privately owned company producing fine wine as an art.

袋熊溪酒庄是一家独立的私营公司，以生产优质葡萄酒为艺术。

(9)"There's Toad Hall," said the Rat; "and that creek on the left, where the notice-board says, Private."

“那是蛤蟆府，”水鼠兰特说；“左边的小溪，就是布告牌上写着‘私人'的地方。”

(10)You could only get to it by the bridge across the creek; the surrounding trees and the steep bushy cliff behind shut it in like a house in a forest clearing.

他们爱它，因为要到达那里你只能走过小溪上的桥；而周围的树木和背后森森的陡峭悬崖让它看起来就像森林空地上的屋子一样隔绝世事。

(11)I was really up the creek without my car.

离了我那辆汽车真是不方便。

同义词

n. 小溪；小湾

释义

n.

an inlet in a shoreline, channel in a marsh, or other narrow, sheltered waterway

小港，小湾。

N. Amer. & Austral./NZ a stream, brook, or minor tributary of a river

〈北美，澳／新西兰〉 　溪，小河；（河的）支流。

n.

a member of a confederacy of American Indian peoples of the south-eastern US in the 16th to 19th centuries. The power of the Creek Indians was broken in 1814;their descendants now live mainly in Oklahoma.

克里克人（１６至１９世纪居住在美国东南部的印第安部落联盟的成员；克里克印第安人的影响力于１８１４年遭削弱，他们的后代现主要居住在俄克拉何马州）。

[mass noun]the Muskogean language that was spoken by members of this confederacy

克里克语（克里克人说的马斯科吉语）。

adj.

of, relating to, or denoting this confederacy

（与）克里克联盟（有关）的。

短语

be up the creek informal 〈非正式〉 １　（亦作be up the creek without a paddle） be in severe difficulty or trouble, especially with no means of extricating oneself from it 处于困境（或麻烦）之中

２　Brit. stupid or misguided 〈英〉 愚蠢；被误导

be up shit creek 见SHIT.

词源

"Middle English：from Old French crique or from Old Norse kriki ‘nook'；perhaps reinforced by Middle Dutch krēkeof； of unknown ultimate origin.from CREEK, because they lived beside the waterways of the flatlands of Georgia and Alabama."

考纲分布

近12年出现4次

重要程度: 4星

100%; n 小溪；小河

考纲释义

( 1)n. 小溪；小河

真题例句：

I was worried that our 15-month-old boy would fall into the creek (小溪).

我担心我们15个月大的儿子会掉进小溪里。[2022年 新高考Ⅰ卷 完形填空]

It worked—he didn't end up in the creek.

成功了——他没有掉进小溪里。[2022年 新高考Ⅰ卷 完形填空]

Once, we camped along Chalk Creek.

有一次，我们沿着白垩溪露营。[2022年 新高考Ⅰ卷 完形填空]

(1)Waiting for us at the creek is Raj, he's in charge of our safety.

在河上等着我们的是拉杰，他会负责我们的安全问题。《David Beckham: Into the Unknown》《大卫·贝克汉姆：探索未知之境》

(2)And this is what you need to use to actually get through this creek onto the Rio Negro.

你们就是要坐着它，穿过这条河道进入里奥内格罗。《David Beckham: Into the Unknown》《大卫·贝克汉姆：探索未知之境》

(3)For two centuries, Dubai was not much more than a tiny trading port on the banks of Dubai Creek.

两个世纪以来，迪拜都只是迪拜河岸的小交易港口。《10 Cities Vacation Travel Guide》《10大名城旅游攻略》

(4)Row, row, row your boat, gently down the creek. If you see a big bad wolf, don't forget to shriek.

划，划，划你的船，在小河里轻轻的划。如果你看见一只大灰狼，不要忘记尖叫。《Peppa Pig Season 4》《小猪佩奇 第四季》

(5)She whacks away at layers of rock above you or spots your fossil exposed in a creek bank after a flood.

她打碎你上面的层层岩石或者在河边经过一场洪水后你化石的一部分露出来。《TED-Ed》《TED教育》

(6)My brother! My laundry! His laundry! I'm sorry. I lost my mind. I will just take these to the creek and I will wash them myself.

我的弟弟！我的脏衣服！他的脏衣服！对不起，我失去理智了，我会把这些带到小溪边去，我自己用手洗。《Girl Meets World Season 3》《女孩成长记 第三季》