记忆方法
将“creep”想象成一个微小生物（如爬行动物）慢慢地、偷偷地移动，像是在墙角“curl”（蜷缩）着前进，这样可以帮助记住其含义为“缓慢地移动”或“悄悄地走”。
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词族 · creep
中文词源
creep 爬
来自PIE*ger, 弯，转，词源同crook,crank.
英语词源
- creep
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creep: [OE] Creep is an ancient verb, which has been traced back to Indo–European *greub-. This was the source also of Dutch kriupen and Swedish krypa ‘creep’, and of Lithuanian grubineti ‘stumble’, and links have been suggested with English cripple. The related Indo-European *greug- produced German kriechen ‘creep’.
=> cripple - creep (v.)
- Old English creopan "to creep" (class II strong verb; past tense creap, past participle cropen), from Proto-Germanic *kreupan (cognates: Old Frisian kriapa, Middle Dutch crupen, Old Norse krjupa "to creep"), perhaps from a PIE root *g(e)r- "crooked" [Watkins]. Related: Crept; creeping.
- creep (n.)
- "a creeping motion," 1818, from creep (v.). Meaning "despicable person" is 1935, American English slang, perhaps from earlier sense of "sneak thief" (1914). Creeper "a gilded rascal" is recorded from c. 1600, and the word also was used of certain classes of thieves, especially those who robbed customers in brothels. The creeps "a feeling of dread or revulsion" first attested 1849, in Dickens.
权威例句
- 1. The desire to be a mother may creep up on you unexpectedly.
- 你会不知不觉地产生想当母亲的渴望。
- 2. I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.
- 我会偷偷溜进去，轻手轻脚地查看一下二楼。
- 3. 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。
- 4. It makes my flesh creep to think of it.
- 想到它就会让我毛骨悚然。
- 5. They'll creep up on you while you're asleep.
- 他们会在你睡着的时候悄悄接近你。
词语辨析
【climb, creep, crawl】
这组词都有“爬”的意思，其区别是：
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。
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。
crawl: 指人或动物以身躯贴着地面缓慢地移动。
这组词都有“爬”的意思，其区别是：
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。
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。
crawl: 指人或动物以身躯贴着地面缓慢地移动。