creature
名词 n.
英 /ˈkɹiː.tʃə/|[ˈkʰɹʷɪi̯.tʃə]
美 /ˈkɹi.tʃɚ/|[ˈkʰɹʷɪi̯.tʃɚ] ~ [ˈkʰɹʷɪi̯.tʃɹ̩]
英文释义
名词 n.
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A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
— insects and other creatures
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An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
— When it comes to this creature you have to unlearn everything you've ever learned about physiology. For example, when its appendages emerge to feed, they do so using incredible bursts of growth, quite unlike anything ever seen before […]
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A human.
— He's a creature of habit.
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A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
— Thoughts, my mindes creatures, often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.
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A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
— "You know what I advise," said Mrs. Smith. "Ask Miss Dunstable to advance the money on the same security which the duke holds. She will be as safe then as he is now. And if you can arrange that, stand for the county against him; perhaps you may be beaten." "I shouldn't have a chance." "But it would show that you are not a creature in the duke's hands. That's my advice," said Mrs. Smith, with much spirit; […]
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a little of the creature
autism creature
creatural
creature comfort
creaturedom
creature feature
creaturehood
creaturekind
creatureless
creaturelike
creatureling
creaturely
creature of habit
creature of statute
creature of the night
creatureship
creaturess
creaturish
creaturism
creaturize
creetur
cratur
craythur
cybercreature
diaper creature
mercreature
mer-creature
spokescreature
TBH creature
treeture
werecreature
were-creature
yippee creature
critter
词源
From Middle English creature in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via Old French creature, criature, from Latin creātūra, from creō. By surface analysis, create + -ure. Displaced native Old English ġesċeaft. Doublet of craythur and critter.
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