creek的意思|creek的解释-里氏词典

creek [kri:k]

n. 小溪, 小河, 小湾

I was really up the creek when I lost my keys.
我丢掉钥匙之后，真正遇到了麻烦。
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。
Factory waste has smelled up the creek.
工厂的废物使这条小河臭气熏天。

creek

[ noun ]

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

<noun.object>

the creek dried up every summer

any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

<noun.person>

Creeks \Creeks\ (kr[=e]ks), n. pl.; sing. {Creek}. (Ethnol.)
A tribe or confederacy of North American Indians, including
the Muskogees, Seminoles, Uchees, and other subordinate
tribes. They formerly inhabited Georgia, Florida, and
Alabama.

Creek \Creek\ (kr[=e]k), n. [AS. crecca; akin to D. kreek, Icel.
kriki crack, nook; cf. W. crig crack, crigyll ravine, creek.
Cf. {Crick}, {Crook}.]
1. A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into
the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or
of a river.

Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore.
--Cowper.

They discovered a certain creek, with a shore.
--Acts xxvii.
39.

2. A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a
brook.

Lesser streams and rivulets are denominated creeks.
--Goldsmith.

3. Any turn or winding.

The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands.
--Shak.

Police say the larcenous hopes of two boat burglars were dashed when they realized they were up a creek without a paddle.
In the days of dhows and steamers, Dubai's natural creek quickly became the Gulf's busiest port in the late nineteenth-century, soon after it was settled by a branch of the Bani Yas tribe, led by the Maktoum family, who still rule Dubai.
In granting a license for a hydroelectric plant on Rock Creek in 1983, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission established minimum levels for the flow of water that must remain in the creek.
A Seoul newspaper, the Kookmin Ilbo, quoted a farmer who saw the crash as saying two helicopters were hovering about 250 feet above the ground when one suddenly turned upside down and plunged into a creek.
In Santa Barbara, the body Andrea Gurka, 37, was found this morning in a creek bed behind her home in the area where the fire began, said county fire spokesman Charlie Johnson.
The area was closed Wednesday as firefighters kept the flames from jumping a creek and threatening the structure and airstrip.
He has spent hours in mud up to his armpits trying to drag a bogged animal clear of a creek.
On Sunday, a Belleville East Township High School employee found her body in a dry creek bed on school property.
John Naparalla of Neshkoro said it was so dry that the creek was squeaking as it rounded the bends and the spawning carp got sunburned.
An elderly woman lost her footing and drowned while fording a flooded creek near her home in Cherokee County, Ala., in northeastern Alabama near the Georgia border, said Leon Smith, the county's emergency management coordinator.
Daniel and his friend, Phillip Bernier, began hauling trash out of the creek and then learned from Kennedy that they could turn their after-school hobby into an entry for the EPA competition.
The body of Andrea Gurka, 37, was found Friday in a creek bed behind her home in the San Marcos Pass area where the fire started. Because the fire was arson-caused, her death is considered a homicide.
Three people were killed and a child was missing after their car was swept away in a rain-swollen creek near Mineral Wells, Texas.
State officials have outlawed plastic duck races as a threat to the environment, sending the latest craze in fund raising in Rhode Island up the creek.
The tub was washed into the creek.
Thompson said the creek receded as quickly as it rose.
However, officials still cautioned farmers to keep livestock away from drinking water in a nearby creek.
Information officer Ted Coffman said crews were smoothing dirt over bulldozed lines, repairing creek drainages and planting some fire lines.
A creek running along the left side of the fairway and just in front of the green further complicates matters.
Once there were more than 100,000 spawning salmon in the creek every fall, park officials say.
In July and August, the Fagens live in a tent on an island off the creek mouth with their 8-year-old son, Kevin, and a rotation of graduate students who help keep track of the bears.
"I'm sure every small creek in southeastern Kentucky went out of its banks, way out of its banks," Callahan said.
A 1988 study of Bell County cancer rates, while failing to tie the illness to creek pollution, did show that residents face an increased risk of cancer.
The creek provides about 5 percent of the town's total water needs.
At an age when the only form most youngsters see is a report card, three boys tired of finding garbage and sewage in their neighborhood creek have filed a complaint with county authorities.
Seven days later, following an air and ground search, Ms. Ward's Suzuki bush vehicle was found mired in a creek, well off her intended route.
The creek was becoming choked by ash from a lightning-caused fire in Gila National Forest that burned more than 10,000 acres before being contained on Monday.
Cars and trucks were floating away and the creek took out a bridge.
"I was complaining about the showers and our Vietnam guys told me they had to get clean in the creek when they were there," said Spc.
A helicopter pilot guided his aircraft with one hand and used the other to lift two children off their mother's car just before it was swept into a rain-swollen creek.

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