单词详解 | creak

creak
音标
英音/ kriːk / 美音/ kriːk /

听听基本释意:

外刊例句
However, he added that the next government would “face a tricky choice between raising taxes to fix creaking public services or holding the line on the chancellor’s recent tax cuts”.
但是,他补充说,下一个政府将“在提高税收来修复吱吱作响的公共服务或将总理最近的减税措施保持界限之间面临棘手的选择”。
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Just the sunny day causing an old building to creak and groan, or something uncanny?
只是晴天,造成一座古老的建筑物吱吱作响,gro吟,还是怪异的东西?
BBC

Despite a line-out that was creaking, Ireland’s error count was low and they dictated the terms, with O’Brien’s kicking game forcing Japan to run out from deep and inevitably get turned over.
尽管有一阵吱吱作响的排队,但爱尔兰的错误数量很低,他们决定了这些条款,奥布莱恩(O’Brien)的踢球比赛迫使日本从深处出发,不可避免地会被淘汰。
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基本释意
verb
make a high-pitched, screeching noise
(门、木地板等)嘎吱作响;(过劳或紧张)显得虚弱

同义词
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短释义
Old doors and gates creak as they open, and tree branches creak as they blow around in very heavy wind. The sound itself is also a creak: “The creak of the front door in the silent house made them jump.” In the 14th century, to creak was to “utter a harsh cry,” and soon afterward it came to mean the same noise made by an object. Creak is imitative — the word itself sounds like a creak.
吱吱作响的是发出高高的gro吟声,就像一个生锈的大门摇摆。当您走下大厅时,您家中旧的,磨损的地板可能会吱吱作响。

长释义
Old doors and gates creak as they open, and tree branches creak as they blow around in very heavy wind. The sound itself is also a creak: “The creak of the front door in the silent house made them jump.” In the 14th century, to creak was to “utter a harsh cry,” and soon afterward it came to mean the same noise made by an object. Creak is imitative — the word itself sounds like a creak.
旧门和大门打开时吱吱作响,树枝吱吱作响时,树枝吱吱作响。声音本身也是一种吱吱作响的声音:“无声房屋中前门的吱吱作响使他们跳了起来。”在14世纪,要吱吱作响是要“发出刺耳的哭泣”,不久之后就意味着物体发出的噪音。吱吱作响是模仿的 – 这个词本身听起来像是一种吱吱作响。

文学例句
I could hear the slight creak of bamboo and bone as the bow bent.
当弓弯曲时,我能听到竹子和骨骼的轻微吱吱作响。
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri

He dreaded the moment when a tree started to fall over, how its wood would moan and creak as though it was crying out in agony.
他害怕一棵树开始倒塌的那一刻,它的木头会如何抱怨和吱吱作响,好像它在痛苦中哭泣。
I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 by Lauren Tarshis

A minute later the outside door creaked open.
一分钟后,外门吱吱作响。
I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 by Lauren Tarshis

词源
creak(v.)early 14c., creken, “utter a harsh cry,” of imitative origin. Compare Old English cræccettan “to croak.” Used from 1580s of the sound made by rusty gate hinges, wooden floorboards, and aged bones. Related: Creaked; creaking. As a noun, from c. 1600, “a sharp, harsh, grating sound.”also from early 14c.

下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
吱吱作响(诉)14c。比较古老的英语cræccettan“ to croak”。从1580年代使用Rusty Gate铰链,木地板和老化的骨头发出的声音。相关:吱吱作响;吱吱作响。作为名词,来自c。 1600年,“尖锐,刺耳的刺耳的声音。”也从14c初开始。


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