creep

英 [kriːp] 美 [kriːp]

• vi. 蹑手蹑脚地走；爬；渐渐出现；蔓延；毛骨悚然
• n. 卑鄙小人；爬；徐行；蠕动

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vi. 蹑手蹑脚地走,缓慢地行进

   move slowly, quietly, and carefully

2. vi. 爬行,匍匐

   move with the body close to the ground

英英释义

Noun:

1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

2. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

3. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

4. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body;

   "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"
   "the traffic moved at a creep"
   

Verb:

1. move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground;

   "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
   

2. to go stealthily or furtively;

   "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house"
   

3. grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface);

   "ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings"
   

4. show submission or fear

例句

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. We take off our shoes and creep cautiously along the passage.
   我们脱掉了鞋，在走廊中蹑手蹑脚地往前走。
2. The spider learns to creep on the wall.
   蜘蛛学爬壁。
3. As the doctors became more tired, errors began to creep into their work.
   由于越来越疲劳，医生的工作开始出现差错。
4. Old age creeps up on you before you realize it.
   人不知不觉就变老了。
5. Do not allow chemicals to creep into the sewer grid.
   不允许把化学品蔓延到下水道的分格中。
6. As for corruption, there is no indication at all that it has started to creep in to our society.
   至于贪污方面,没有半点迹象显示贪污之风已开始蔓延至本港社会。
7. The mysterious sound made my flesh creep.
   那神秘的声音吓得我毛骨悚然。

用作名词 (n.)

1. You slimy little creep!
   你这个卑鄙无耻的奴才！
2. That creep always quarrels with his neighbors.
   那个讨厌鬼老跟邻居吵架。
3. I felt the soil creep and heave beneath me, like some monstrous serpent.
   我觉得大地在我下面起伏蠕动，象一条可怕的巨蟒。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. The hunter crept up to the deer.
   猎人蹑手蹑脚地走近那头鹿。
2. The dog crept under the car to hide.
   狗爬到汽车下藏着。
3. Old age creeps on without being noticed.
   不知不觉已到老年。
4. The newspaper's circulation has crept up from 700,000 to almost a million.
   报纸的发行量由70万份逐渐增加到近100万份。
5. Mistakes start to creep in when you work too hard.
   你工作过于辛苦时,错误就会逐渐出现。
6. A lonely feeling crept upon my spirit.
   一种孤独感爬上我的心头。

经典引文

• The live oaks with their waving curtains of grey moss gave Scarlett the creeps.

  出自： M. Mitchell

• Land Tortoyses so great that they will creepe with two mens burthens.

  出自： T. Herbert

• A hole in the hedge..through which I must creep if I was to play with the neighbour's children.

  出自： Day Lewis

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• creep away 悄悄离开
• creep forward 匍匐前进
• creep on (时间、岁月等)不知不觉地来临
• creep up 爬上去,渐渐靠近,悄悄逼近

～+介词

• creep along 沿着…爬行
• creep into 悄悄进入,逐渐产生
• creep over〔upon〕 爬上

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. creep的基本意思是“缓慢〔悄悄〕地行进”,隐含唯恐被人发现之意,也可指人或动物身体贴着地面“爬行,匍匐”,可用来比喻岁月、时间等慢慢流逝,数量、份额等逐渐爬升,错误、麻烦等偷偷出现,情绪、感觉等悄然涌上心头。

词义辨析

creep，climb，crawl

• 这些动词都有“爬”之意。
• creep多指人或四足动物匍匐爬行，尤指偷偷地或不出声地缓慢向前爬行。也指植物的蔓延生长等。
• climb通常指用手或足爬上或爬下，也指飞机、日、月的上升，还可用作比喻。
• crawl指人或动物以身躯贴着地面缓慢地移动。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自中古英语的crepen，意为爬，蠕动。

近反义词

【近义词】

• crawl