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creature

/kree-cher/US // ˈkri tʃər //UK // (ˈkriːtʃə) //

生物,生灵,动物,生物体

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

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