Creep

(noun.) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot.

(noun.) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation.

(noun.) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.

(verb.) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface); 'ivy crept over the walls of the university buildings'.

爱德华整理

• It was ten o'clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn't married a Negress Slave at once? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• What with your looks and your questions, upon my soul, you make my flesh creep! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• When the village had taken its poor supper, it did not creep to bed, as it usually did, but came out of doors again, and remained there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The expression of his eyes made her soul sick, and her flesh creep. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Everything was gone, walled in, with spikes on top of the walls, and one must ignominiously creep between the spiky walls through a labyrinth of life. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Many errors might creep in by such a system. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I saw her innocently kiss her chosen husband on the cheek, and creep close to his bluff form as if it were her best support. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• At length he summoned me by a low, S-s-t, and I crept toward the sound of his voice to find him kneeling on the brink of an opening in the floor. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Jo started up, revived the blaze, and crept to the bedside, hoping Beth slept. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• An instant later steps crept down the passage--steps which were meant to be silent, but which reverberated harshly through the empty house. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Can it be a wandering dog that has come in from the street and crept and nestled hither? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She crept to her couch, chill and dejected. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He crept closer through the trees until he was quite close above them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Presently Charley came creeping back to my side and said, Oh, don't cry, if you please, miss. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The brute tried to force an entrance; but presently this ceased, and again she heard the great pads creeping stealthily around the cabin. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Creeping on where time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Resolute, however, to rejoin him, I penetrated the living barrier, creeping under where I could not get between or over. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• My life creeps like a snail. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I don't sleep at night, and in the afternoon a dreadful drowsiness creeps over me. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Now the trouble with such an idol is that autobiography creeps in anyway. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• She was constantly complaining of the cold, and of its occasioning a visitation in her back which she called 'the creeps'. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The hermit Secretary, who creeps up and down the back stairs, and is never seen! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

整理:威尔伯