核心畫面
You can picture creep as moving slowly and low to the ground, so quietly that nobody notices — a body kept down, forward inch by inch without a sound. Almost every other sense is that same hidden, inch-by-inch advance: a feeling that slips in , a plant spreading along a wall, fog filling a valley, even a person who sneaks toward you in a way that makes your skin crawl.
可以把 creep 想成壓低身子、慢慢、悄悄地移動，靜到沒人察覺——身體放低，一寸一寸無聲地往前挪。其他幾乎每個意思…更多收起
可以把 creep 想成壓低身子、慢慢、悄悄地移動，靜到沒人察覺——身體放低，一寸一寸無聲地往前挪。其他幾乎每個意思都是同一種「隱蔽、一寸一寸推進」的畫面：一種感覺不知不覺溜進來、植物沿著牆面蔓延、霧氣填滿山谷，甚至是一個人鬼鬼祟祟靠近你，讓你渾身發毛。原始詞典資料21 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。
creepverb/kɹiːp/
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To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- Lizards and snakes crept over the ground.
- One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.
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To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- 3
To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- He tried to creep past the guard without being seen.
- Electrification of the Eastern Region main line from Strasbourg, incidentally, is steadily creeping nearer to Paris, and is now complete as far as Château Thierry, 59 miles away; [...].
- 4
To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- Prices have been creeping up all year.
- 5
To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to insinuate itself or oneself.
- Old age creeps upon us.
- […]guard his understanding from being imposed on by the willful or at least undesigned sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument.
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To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- The collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying.
- The quicksilver on a mirror may creep.
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To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- A creeping sycophant.
- To come as humbly as they used to creep / To holy altars.
- 8
To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- The sight made my flesh creep.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
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slangTo covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- Honey came in and she caught me red-handed / Creeping with the girl next door / Picture this we were both butt naked / Banging on the bathroom floor
- I don't wanna know / If you're playin' me, keep it on the low / 'Cause my heart can't take it anymore / And if you're creepin', please don't let it show
creepnoun/kɹiːp/
- 1
The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
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A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
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A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
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The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- Christmas creep
- feature creep
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mediapublishingIn sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
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An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesThe imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
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derogatoryinformalSomeone creepy (annoyingly unpleasant), especially one who is strange or eccentric.
- "You mentioned some others," I said. "More creeps," she told me. '"That guy was plain looking for trouble. You know, he starts hanging out with some of the shooters Whitey Tass keeps around, angling for an introduction to the big man himself, and he's damn lucky he got picked up by the fuzz before Whitey got sore. He runs too big an operation in the city to be bugged by a pig like Yard. One day Lou Steubal tried to get an inside track with Whitey, levering him on account of what Whitey did to his sister, and they found Lou in the drink. It looked like Lou got gassed up and fell in, but don't try to tell me that. Whitey had him tapped out."
- But I'm a creep / I'm a weirdo / What the hell am I doing here? / I don't belong here
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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derogatoryinformalA person who engages in sexually inappropriate behaviour or sexual harassment.
- It was whispered that the priest was a pervert. Was he? The girls said he was a creep. I didn't quite know what it meant to be a creep, but it was obviously not a good thing. It was said that he sometimes fondled the girls, their breasts, and said lousy things to them, that they were beautiful or something like that.[…]Disgusting guys. I thought the guy at Bústaðir was a creep. An old man who liked to dance.
- Saiera shuddered through an exaggerated shiver. "He's a creep. He was a creep in high school, and he's been a creep ever since. Look..." She flipped to the index, found what she was looking for, and fanned the pages until she reached the one she wanted. "Here he is. A young Andy Gluck, chubby as a penguin, stared out of the page from behind round wire-frame glasses. A camera hung from a strap around his neck. […] "He doesn't look creepy," I said. "Kind of nerdy, in a harmless way. "Looks can be deceiving. See that camera? He was always going around with that camera, snapping pictures. Some girls caught him trying to get 'up skirt' shots while they sat at their desks.[…]"
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleA barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
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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。