一條窄窄的水道
這一族就是核心畫面本身。兩個意思的差別只在水從哪邊來：一邊是從山上流下來，一邊是從海裡伸進來——形狀都是同一條窄水道。
small stream · noun · B1
A small, narrow stream or river.
小溪 / 小河
核心畫面
Picture a thin line of water cut into the land — narrow enough to jump across in places, winding away between trees or mud banks until you cannot see where it goes. A creek can be thought of as a small water passage into somewhere: too small to be a river, big enough to walk along, and easy to get into but not always easy to get out of.
可以想成陸地上被水切出來的一道細細的線——有些地方一步就跨得過去，彎彎曲曲地往樹林或泥灘深處鑽，看不到盡頭。cree…更多收起
可以想成陸地上被水切出來的一道細細的線——有些地方一步就跨得過去，彎彎曲曲地往樹林或泥灘深處鑽，看不到盡頭。creek 就像是一條通進去的小水道：小到稱不上河，卻大到可以沿著它走；進去很容易，要出來就不一定了。Two branches
困在那條水道裡
把核心畫面裡最麻煩的那一點放大：小水道是進得去、出不來的地方。人被推到那種處境時，英文就說他 up the creek。
up the creek · noun · C1
Used in the phrase 'up the creek' to say that someone is in a very difficult situation with no easy way out.
陷入困境
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Creeknoun詞源 1
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One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.
- Revis, who moved to Macon two-and-a half years ago to work on the park effort, noted that after the Muscogee (Creek) were removed to Oklahoma, the site became a slave plantation.
Creekname詞源 1
- 1
The Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.
- 2
A surname.
Creekadj詞源 1
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Of or pertaining to the Creek tribe.
- The chieftain was well versed in Creek history.
Creekname詞源 2
- 1
slanglifestyleThe ship of characters Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak from the South Park series.
- For at least a decade, people on the internet have been drawing fan art of the love between this two characters (a ship known as "Creek"). A cursory search of DeviantArt shows Creek art dating back to 2005. And when Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided it was finally time to acknowledge Creek and their surprisingly robust online fandom, they went straight to the source, soliciting real drawings from users online.
- The episode’s humor and heart speak to viewers bemused at the concept of yaoi and devoted “Creek” shippers alike, but it isn’t the child characters learning something by the show’s conclusion. Instead, it’s a father who learns a lesson about being a better parent to his son.
creeknoun/ˈkɹiːk/
- 1
A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
- Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.
- 2
The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
- 3
A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
- We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have announced it.
- 4
Any turn or winding.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。