creature 的定义
- an animal, especially a nonhuman: the creatures of the woods and fields; a creature from outer space.
- anything created, whether animate or inanimate.
- person; human being: She is a charming creature. The driver of a bus is sometimes an irritable creature.
- an animate being.
- a person whose position or fortune is owed to someone or something and who continues under the control or influence of that person or thing: The cardinal was a creature of Louis XI.
- Scot. and Older U.S. Use.Usually the creature . intoxicating liquor, especially whiskey: He drinks a bit of the creature before bedtime.
creature 近义词
being, beast
更多creature例句
- The dolphinlike creature was nearly 5 meters long, about the length of a canoe.
- We may now be in a world where in-person events are a rarity, but that hasn’t curbed our desire for gatherings as we’re naturally social creatures.
- It keeps genes in the pool that might not be of use today, but might save a creature’s descendants from plagues, pestilence, and parasites.
- During the Blob from 2015–2016, some creatures may have traveled more than 2,000 kilometers.
- We are all creatures of habit, and shopping is largely habit-driven.
- Their logic: the sea-creature would come alive and drink up any remaining alcohol.
- Exactly when the transition to modern domestic creature took place, for a bird that is wild to this day, is controversial.
- And the Gävle Goat, apparently a sensitive creature, took the destruction hard.
- Indeed, Dr. Shaheed has noted that Rouhani has only “limited authority” to change the system of which he is a creature.
- Pillay used the 747 to deliver creature comforts, particularly for business travelers, that were previously unheard of.
- He was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the Goblin.
- Some of the alarm returned, however, when the creature attempted to climb up by his own ladder.
- While Benjy sat contemplating this creature, and wondering what was to be the end of it all, a bright idea occurred to him.
- That poor, pretty creature, starving, in her charming pink dress and hat of roses.
- To hear the creature talk about it makes my mouth as a brick kiln and my flesh as that of a goose.