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creep 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 (1) 我们脱掉了鞋，在走廊中蹑手蹑脚地往前走。(2) 蜘蛛学爬壁。(3) 由于越来越疲劳，医生的工作开始出现差错。(4) 人不知不觉就变老了。(5) 不允许把化学品蔓延到下水道的分格中。(6) 那神秘的声音吓得我毛骨悚然。(7) 你这个卑鄙无耻的奴才！(8) 那个讨厌鬼老跟邻居吵架。(9) 我觉得大地在我下面起伏蠕动，象一条可怕的巨蟒。 Creep has a long history and a subtle variety of meanings. In its earliest recorded usage, it described the movement of legless creatures like snakes and worms. By the sixteenth century, creep meant "move slowly" and "move with stealth" like when you creep up to your brother to startle him. Charles Dickens coined the phrase, the creeps, to suggest the shuddering sensation you get when you see something gross and scary. A creep is a person who makes your skin crawl, a meaning that has been used in American English since 1935.

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英 [kriːp] 美 [kriːp] (1) We take off our shoes and creep cautiously along the passage.(2) The spider learns to creep on the wall.(3) As the doctors became more tired, errors began to creep into their work.(4) Old age creeps up on you before you realize it.(5) Do not allow chemicals to creep into the sewer grid.(6) The mysterious sound made my flesh creep.(7) You slimy little creep!(8) That creep always quarrels with his neighbors.(9) I felt the soil creep and heave beneath me, like some monstrous serpent. A beetle creeps along the ground. Moving slowly and silently, it creeps up on you. When you feel the touch of tiny insect legs on your skin, you shudder, because bugs give you the creeps. 1[VERB 动词](人或动物)悄悄地缓慢行进，蹑手蹑脚地移动 When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.   [V adv/prep]Back I go to the hotel and creep up to my room...我回到旅馆，蹑手蹑脚地上楼回到房间。The rabbit creeps away and hides in a hole.兔子悄悄溜走，藏进洞里。2[VERB 动词]缓慢移动 If something creeps somewhere, it moves very slowly.   [V adv/prep]Mist had crept in again from the sea.薄雾又从海面上弥漫过来了。3[VERB 动词]不知不觉地发生 If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it.   [V in]  [V into n]  [V adv/prep]  [V-ing]Insecurity might creep in...可能会不知不觉地产生不安全感。An increasing ratio of mistakes, perhaps induced by tiredness, crept into her game.可能是由于体力不支，她在比赛中的失误越来越多。...a proposal that crept through unnoticed at the National Council in December...一项于12月份在全国委员会不声不响获得通过的提议Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes...现在他的其他主要作品又悄然出现在音乐会节目单上。Their organisation has been subjected to creeping privatisation since 1981.自1981年以来他们的组织已经被逐渐私有化了。4[VERB 动词](比率或数值)逐渐增长 If a rate or number creeps up to a higher level, it gradually reaches that level.   [V up to n]  [V up]  [Also V adj-compar]The inflation rate has been creeping up to 9.5 per cent...通货膨胀率已攀升至9.5%。The average number of students in each class is creeping up from three to four.每个班的平均学生人数已经从3人增长到了4人。5[N-COUNT 可数名词]讨厌鬼； (尤指)讨好卖乖的人，马屁精 If you describe someone as a creep, you mean that you dislike them a great deal, especially because they are insincere and flatter people.   [disapproval]  [INFORMAL 非正式]6[PHRASE 短语]吓人；使惊慌；使心里发毛 If someone or something gives you the creeps, they make you feel very nervous or frightened.   [V inflects]  [INFORMAL 非正式]I always hated that statue. It gave me the creeps.我一直都很讨厌那座雕像。它让我心里发毛。7 to make someone's flesh creep→see: flesh； 相关词组：creep up on

英语单词	creep
英美音标	英 [kriːp] 美 [kriːp]
中文释义	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
英语例句	(1) We take off our shoes and creep cautiously along the passage. (2) The spider learns to creep on the wall. (3) As the doctors became more tired, errors began to creep into their work. (4) Old age creeps up on you before you realize it. (5) Do not allow chemicals to creep into the sewer grid. (6) The mysterious sound made my flesh creep. (7) You slimy little creep! (8) That creep always quarrels with his neighbors. (9) I felt the soil creep and heave beneath me, like some monstrous serpent.
中文例句	(1) 我们脱掉了鞋，在走廊中蹑手蹑脚地往前走。 (2) 蜘蛛学爬壁。 (3) 由于越来越疲劳，医生的工作开始出现差错。 (4) 人不知不觉就变老了。 (5) 不允许把化学品蔓延到下水道的分格中。 (6) 那神秘的声音吓得我毛骨悚然。 (7) 你这个卑鄙无耻的奴才！ (8) 那个讨厌鬼老跟邻居吵架。 (9) 我觉得大地在我下面起伏蠕动，象一条可怕的巨蟒。
vocabulary简明	A beetle creeps along the ground. Moving slowly and silently, it creeps up on you. When you feel the touch of tiny insect legs on your skin, you shudder, because bugs give you the creeps.
vocabulary扩展	Creep has a long history and a subtle variety of meanings. In its earliest recorded usage, it described the movement of legless creatures like snakes and worms. By the sixteenth century, creep meant "move slowly" and "move with stealth" like when you creep up to your brother to startle him. Charles Dickens coined the phrase, the creeps, to suggest the shuddering sensation you get when you see something gross and scary. A creep is a person who makes your skin crawl, a meaning that has been used in American English since 1935.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词](人或动物)悄悄地缓慢行进，蹑手蹑脚地移动 When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly. [V adv/prep] Back I go to the hotel and creep up to my room... 我回到旅馆，蹑手蹑脚地上楼回到房间。 The rabbit creeps away and hides in a hole. 兔子悄悄溜走，藏进洞里。 2 [VERB 动词]缓慢移动 If something creeps somewhere, it moves very slowly. [V adv/prep] Mist had crept in again from the sea. 薄雾又从海面上弥漫过来了。 3 [VERB 动词]不知不觉地发生 If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it. [V in] [V into n] [V adv/prep] [V-ing] Insecurity might creep in... 可能会不知不觉地产生不安全感。 An increasing ratio of mistakes, perhaps induced by tiredness, crept into her game. 可能是由于体力不支，她在比赛中的失误越来越多。 ...a proposal that crept through unnoticed at the National Council in December... 一项于12月份在全国委员会不声不响获得通过的提议 Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes... 现在他的其他主要作品又悄然出现在音乐会节目单上。 Their organisation has been subjected to creeping privatisation since 1981. 自1981年以来他们的组织已经被逐渐私有化了。 4 [VERB 动词](比率或数值)逐渐增长 If a rate or number creeps up to a higher level, it gradually reaches that level. [V up to n] [V up] [Also V adj-compar] The inflation rate has been creeping up to 9.5 per cent... 通货膨胀率已攀升至9.5%。 The average number of students in each class is creeping up from three to four. 每个班的平均学生人数已经从3人增长到了4人。 5 [N-COUNT 可数名词]讨厌鬼； (尤指)讨好卖乖的人，马屁精 If you describe someone as a creep, you mean that you dislike them a great deal, especially because they are insincere and flatter people. [disapproval] [INFORMAL 非正式] 6 [PHRASE 短语]吓人；使惊慌；使心里发毛 If someone or something gives you the creeps, they make you feel very nervous or frightened. [V inflects] [INFORMAL 非正式] I always hated that statue. It gave me the creeps. 我一直都很讨厌那座雕像。它让我心里发毛。 7 to make someone's flesh creep→see: flesh ；相关词组： creep up on

Creep [V Verb 动词 Ing I Adv/Prep Crept