creek

• n. 小溪；小湾

词源同crook, 弯，转，多指弯弯曲曲的小河，小溪。

1. a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);

"the creek dried up every summer"

creek

creek: [13] Now firmly associated with watercourse, the original connotations of creek seem to have been of ‘narrow and secluded bendiness’. It appears to have been borrowed from Old Norse kriki ‘nook’, which some have speculated may be related to Old Norse krōkr ‘hook’ (source of English crook). Creek remains strictly a word for narrow waterways, a reminder of its beginnings.
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creek (n.)

mid-15c., creke "narrow inlet in a coastline," altered from kryk (early 13c.; in place names from 12c.), probably from Old Norse kriki "corner, nook," perhaps influenced by Anglo-French crique, itself from a Scandinavian source via Norman. Perhaps ultimately related to crook and with an original notion of "full of bends and turns" (compare dialectal Swedish krik "corner, bend; creek, cove").

Extended to "inlet or short arm of a river" by 1570s, which probably led to use for "small stream, brook" in American English (1620s). Also used there and in Canada, Australia, New Zealand for "branch of a main river," possibly from explorers moving up main rivers and seeing and noting mouths of tributaries without knowing they often were extensive rivers of their own. Slang phrase up the creek "in trouble," often especially "pregnant," first recorded 1941, perhaps originally armed forces slang for "lost while on patrol."

Creek

Indian tribe or confederation, 1725, named for creek, the geographical feature, and abbreviated from Ochese Creek Indians, from the place in Georgia where English first encountered them. Native name is Muskogee, a word of uncertain origin.

Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the des moines river, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across honey creek.

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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

Follow Austin Creek for a few miles.

沿着奥斯汀河走上几英里。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The Suzhou Creek Comprehensive Rehabilitation Project is one important project item in Shanghai City.

苏州河综合整治工程是上海市的一项重大工程项目.

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Only our finest wines are selected for bottling under the Fox Creek label.

我们筛选最好的酒然后才粘贴上狐狸湾庄园的标签.

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Now there is a creek between us.

现在我们俩之间就有了这条河.

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A log across a creek is an example of a girder bridge in its simplest form.

日志跨越克里克是一个例子梁桥在其最简单的形式.

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After the water tower was built, a train stopped for the first time at Mill Creek.

水塔造成之后, 一列火车首次在密耳科立克停下来.

辞典例句

They massed on the opposite side of the creek that split the field behind our house.

他们集结在那条将我们家后面的地一分为二的小溪的对面.

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Still he could walk about . He could fishing in the creek or the waterworks pond.

他可以在小溪或公共池塘边钓鱼.

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Regeneration Status of Mangrove Forests in Mida Creek , Kenya: A Compromised of Secured Future?

肯尼亚米达河红树林森林恢复状况: 一个受损害的还是有保障的未来?

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His driving's up the creek.

他的驾驶技术很差劲.

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The people of the Creek confederacy occupied some 50 towns.

克里克联邦的人占领了大约50个镇子.

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And the parcel that he throws across the bridgeinto the creek.

当他经过小桥时他将包裹扔进了河里.

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Look across the creek at that farm. That's my neighbour's, in fact it's my younger brother.

你瞧小河边的那个农场, 那是我的邻居的, 事实上,它是我弟弟的.

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For golfers there is the Dubai Creek Golf Club.

高尔夫球场是有杜拜溪高尔夫俱乐部.

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The creek adjoining grandpa's house had ice at least a foot thick in winter.

祖父家旁边的小河里冬天结的冰起码有一英尺厚.

辞典例句

Fall Creek because the trust has the sea; Choi received a broader life.

尔溪因为有大海的信任; 财获得更广阔的生命.

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And stems from the Lop Nor creek tomb the cultural relic to reach 25.

其中出自罗布泊小河墓地的文物达25件.

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He skimmed a flat stone across the creek.

他将一块扁石漂掠过小溪.

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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.

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The creek, still and soundless, is closed in by trees, hidden from the eyes of men.

这条小港湾, 静寂无声, 树木环绕, 简直是个世外桃源.

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On the way run out from the Cascades, kids diving into the ditch like creek.

途中见到孩子在附近沟渠似的瀑布水流出口玩跳水.

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People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.

人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴.

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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.

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He sprang through the creek.

他跳过小河.

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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。

柯林斯例句

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。

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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。

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I can hardly believe it's been over eight years since you used to go camping at Cedar Creek.

我几乎无法相信现在距离你过去常常去松溪露营的日子已经有8年多了。

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