- 1嘎吱作響；嘎吱聲
If a door, a wooden floor, an old bed, or the creak, they make a long, high, complaining sound when someone opens them, walks on them, or sits on them. The noun is that sound itself. It often hints at age, or at someone trying to be quiet and failing. People also joke that their knees creak. Informal, and a little like the noise it names — not , not slang. Though actually it is not only wood: leather, a rusty gate, a ship’s rope, a bed frame — anything that complains when it moves. The word is old: Middle English creken, from Old English cearcian (“to chatter, creak, ”), with the sounds swapped around, from an old crash/crack verb that is, in the end, . It sits in the same old family as crack.
組成Does not split. From Middle English creken / criken, a metathesis of Old English cearcian, “to chatter, creak, crash, gnash,” from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from an imitative Proto-Indo-European root for a harsh sound. Same old family as crack.
同家族的字
- cracksame old sound-root; both began as words for a sharp or complaining noise
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Creakname
- 1
A surname.
creaknoun/kɹiːk/
- 1
The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
- I won't say that I didn't close my eyes for a minute through the whole night, but if I did sleep it was only as a watchdog sleeps. A whisper or a creak of a board would have found me alert.
creakverb/kɹiːk/
- 1
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
- Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.
- He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
- 2
To produce a creaking sound with.
- Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry.
- I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses, The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses, […]
- 3
To suffer from strain or old age.
- Fascinating though this high-minded re-reading was, certain crucial joints of the play creaked a good deal under the strain.
- The whole basis of feudalism, especially in the more intensively farmed champion arable landscapes of the Midlands, was starting to creak.
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