creek
英 [kri?k]
美[krik]
- n. 小溪；小灣
CET6+TEM4GRETOEFL低頻詞暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?creeks;
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1. 區別：creek, crook: creek <====> 河(漢語拼音：he)，creek中間的字母e與河的拼音的韻母相同，由此與“河”聯系在一起，還有就是“河流”不是封閉的環狀，因此字母o不合適，而是像字母e一樣的九曲十八彎，然后流入大海、水最終會流出；crook => cr- "bent, hooked" + hook, 其中間的字母o像環狀的彎曲物或鉤狀物。
中文詞源
creek 小河，小溪
詞源同crook, 彎，轉，多指彎彎曲曲的小河，小溪。
英文詞源
- 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.
=> crook - 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.
雙語例句
- 1. He was transferred to Shoal Creek Mental Institution for an indefinite period.
- 他被轉到了肖爾溪精神病院，要在那里無限期地呆下去。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. It was still light when we arrived at Lalong Creek.
- 我們到達拉隆溪時天還沒黑。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.
- 人們在露出小溪的巖石上裸體曬日光浴.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. I'll be up the creek if I don't pass this history test.
- 我若不能通過這次歷史考試,麻煩可就大了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. He sprang through the creek.
- 他跳過小河.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》