1. creep in : 开始发生;
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1. (人或动物)悄悄地缓慢行进,蹑手蹑脚地移动
When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.
2. 缓慢移动
If something creeps somewhere, it moves very slowly.
3. 不知不觉地发生
If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it.
4. (比率或数值)逐渐增长
If a rate or number creeps up to a higher level, it gradually reaches that level.
5. 讨厌鬼; (尤指)讨好卖乖的人,马屁精
If you describe someone as a creep, you mean that you dislike them a great deal, especially because they are insincere and flatter people.
6. 吓人;使惊慌;使心里发毛
If someone or something gives you the creeps, they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
7. to make someone's flesh creep - see flesh
相关词组:creep up on
1. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
e.g. a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
the traffic moved at a creep
Synonym: crawlcrawlingcreeping
2. a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot
3. a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
4. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric