• vi. 爬行；蔓延；慢慢地移動；起雞皮疙瘩
• n. 爬行；毛骨悚然的感覺；諂媚者

來自PIE*ger, 彎，轉，詞源同crook,crank.

creep

creep: [OE] Creep is an ancient verb, which has been traced back to Indo–European *greub-. This was the source also of Dutch kriupen and Swedish krypa ‘creep’, and of Lithuanian grubineti ‘stumble’, and links have been suggested with English cripple. The related Indo-European *greug- produced German kriechen ‘creep’.
=> cripple

creep (v.)

Old English creopan "to creep" (class II strong verb; past tense creap, past participle cropen), from Proto-Germanic *kreupan (cognates: Old Frisian kriapa, Middle Dutch crupen, Old Norse krjupa "to creep"), perhaps from a PIE root *g(e)r- "crooked" [Watkins]. Related: Crept; creeping.

creep (n.)

"a creeping motion," 1818, from creep (v.). Meaning "despicable person" is 1935, American English slang, perhaps from earlier sense of "sneak thief" (1914). Creeper "a gilded rascal" is recorded from c. 1600, and the word also was used of certain classes of thieves, especially those who robbed customers in brothels. The creeps "a feeling of dread or revulsion" first attested 1849, in Dickens.

1. The desire to be a mother may creep up on you unexpectedly.

你會不知不覺地產生想當母親的渴望。

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2. I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.

我會偷偷溜進去，輕手輕腳地查看一下二樓。

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3. Back I go to the hotel and creep up to my room.

我回到旅館，躡手躡腳地上樓回到房間。

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4. It makes my flesh creep to think of it.

想到它就會讓我毛骨悚然。

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5. They'll creep up on you while you're asleep.

他們會在你睡著的時候悄悄接近你。

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