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单词 creek
释义
creek
(krk )
Word forms: creeks
1. countable noun [oft in names]
A creek is a narrow place where the sea comes a long way into the land. [British]
2. countable noun [oft in names]
A creek is a small stream or river. [US]
Follow Austin Creek for a few miles.
Synonyms: stream, brook, tributary, bayou  
3. up the creek phrase
If someone is up the creek, they are in a bad or difficult situation, or are wrong in some way. You can also say that someone is up the creek without a paddle. [informal]
Idioms:
up the creek or up the creek without a paddle
in a very difficult situation
We're up the creek because we don't know where to go from here.
Collocations:
creek flows
The creek flows east for a few miles, heading down into a valley between the two aforementioned mountains.
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The final one third of the creek flows through residential areas and farmland.
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During the wet season a small creek flows out of the lake.
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The creek flows through flat terrain with clay and sandy loam surface soils.
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The creek flows through a comparatively narrow valley and has limited irrigation possibilities.
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creek runs
The 17th has an island green and a creek runs up the 18th.
Times, Sunday Times
The initial.25mi km of the creek runs through rocky, steep, wooded terrain.
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A creek runs through the property from which deer and raccoon frequently emerge.
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A small creek runs through the north end of the park.
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The creek runs through a wash which in some sections narrows to become a slot canyon.
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cross a creek
Going upstream from the mouth, the bridge was the third to cross the creek, hence its name.
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Five arches cross the creek with the center arch 76 ft long, and the arches next to it 61 ft long.
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The state highway curves north to cross the creek, then curves back east and leaves the creek valley.
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There are four significant bridges that cross the creek.
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During late 1933 and early 1934, the river flooded several times and made it difficult to cross the creek.
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dry creek
As rain lashed the camp, the celebrities bolted for cover and the normally dry creek turned into a torrent.
The Sun
Our hormone levels and feelings fluctuate as unpredictably as flashflood waters running through a dry creek bed.
Christianity Today
This cave or dugout was down in the bed of a dry creek.
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This most likely refers to a dry creek rather than reference to a hypocorism.
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The normally dry creek ran for a length of over 20mi km through the property.
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shallow creek
Today, it's not much more than a shallow creek, silted up with shoals and sandbanks.
Times, Sunday Times
Some pilgrims cover long distances in this way, measuring every inch of the journey with their bodies, through mountain passes and over the stony beds of shallow creeks.
Globe and Mail
The trails can be moderately strenuous; the shallow creeks occasionally wash out parts of the trail and may require wading to cross.
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Since numerous shallow creeks in addition to bridges traverse the land surface of the town, overflows are constructed to supplement the road network.
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Waxwings are attracted to the sound of running water, and love to bathe in and drink from shallow creeks.
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