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creature ['kri:tʃə]

n. 人, 动物, 创造物, 生物

He is a creature of habit.
他是个墨守成规的人。
Pandas are precious creatures.
熊猫是珍贵的动物。
We can't see microscopic creature with naked eyes.
我们不能用肉眼看到微生物。

creature

[ noun ]

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

<noun.tops>

a human being; `wight' is an archaic term

<noun.person>

a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

<noun.person>

Creature \Crea"ture\ (kr[=e]"t[=u]r; 135), n. [F. cr['e]ature,
L. creatura. See {Create}.]
1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially,
any being created with life; an animal; a man.

He asked water, a creature so common and needful
that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
--Fuller.

God's first creature was light. --Bacon.

On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
--Milton.

And most attractive is the fair result
Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
--Cowper.

2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a
poor creature; a pretty creature.

The world hath not a sweeter creature. --Shak.

3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a
servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. --Shak.

Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
--Macaulay.

4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

{Creature comforts}, those objects, as food, drink, and
shelter, which minister to the comfort of the body.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Mr. Blanc later created nearly all the famous voices in the Looney Tunes universe, basing each on the physical characteristics and personality of the creature presented to him on story boards.
Steve Crothers thought his pet lizard was a goner until he began hearing about sightings of a creature variously described by frightened residents as a 6-foot alligator or a diminuitive Godzilla.
Well, Sean Dooley-Power is Irish and he has built it. A curious creature is his creation.
THAT RARE creature, the truly organised business traveller, is easy to recognise.
Let us start with this Stothard creature and take it from there.' THE WORLD of art-critical jargon today resembles one of those surreal lumber rooms in a Giorgio Di Chirico painting.
Beckjord, of Malibu, Calif., said Davis' account of the creature coincides with other Bigfoot descriptions except for Lizard Man's green skin.
Tall, silver-haired and handsome at 47 years of age, he is a creature of television, seldom out of touch with the American audience.
They increased the risk that the United States would be perceived, especially in the Arab world, as a creature of Israel.
Mr. Neeson allows this creature, who takes no pleasure in his revenge, dignity and poignancy that don't seem cartoonish at all.
There is usually a trio in which some poor creature is tugged into sexually crass positions - do these choreographers fear women? - and spun on her poor knees on the ground, or made to slide face-down over the stage.
The paper printed a photograph of a man with a long pole approaching a creature with a badger's head and a fox's tail against a backdrop of snowy peaks in the Cumbrian hills of northwest England.
"When you look into a shark's eye, it's really like looking into the depths of a machine rather than looking into the depths of a creature," he says.
She's a human, flesh-and-blood creature." Although born in Canada, Nelligan didn't make her professional Canadian debut until "Spoils of War" opened in Toronto in September before coming to New York.
He speaks through a furry creature that wanders into Mary's kitchen and sounds a little like James Cagney with a head cold.
Officials fear, however, that another creature may soon terrorize England.
Nevertheless, the creature is fighting for its life as farmers and conservationists compete for the land on which it feeds. Until seven years ago, the Sarus was feared lost to south-east Asia.
The giggling child is the only recognizably human creature in the gilded court Mr. Bertolucci has re-created.
The moral dilemma is not fully addressed in "An Innocent Man." His prison experience and the harassment of the two cops on his release turn Jimmy into a creature of revenge.
Mr. Bolger and his colleagues represent a relatively new creature in Washington: the information-gatherer who chases paper for his employer, usually a law, public-relations or accounting firm.
Into Nidia's prosperous bourgeois world enters this creature whose life is lived at bare subsistence level.
But Mr. Buchanan is that rare creature, a native of Washington, D.C. He grew up in a Roman Catholic enclave, the Blessed Sacrament parish, in northwest Washington.
It took the audience time to adjust to this doll-like creature with the corkscrew curls overdosing on whimsy, but eventually they were on their feet swaying to music with a clever dance rhythm behind its innocence.
I haven't the money, the connections, or the hunger. But I still love the salmon, and the thought that this wonderful creature - with its extraordinary, epic life cycle - might one day be lost to our rivers is odious.
She is a prickly, contentious creature but eminently sensible and good at heart, he a 60-year-old gentleman impoverished by his ex-wife's gambling.
For there are certain obstacles to the pursuit of this creature, which - in fairness to the more adventurous readers of this column - I should outline. For one thing, the fish is unique to one lake in the entire world.
But the most ingenious way developed to deal with the whale's ills has been the whale wetsuit, designed to maintain the body temperature of the warm-blooded sea creature.
The "maquiladora" plants that have grown to constitute the vast majority of non-oil Mexican exports over the past 15 years are a creature of public policy.
In the limpest way imaginable, he wonders whether there is enough news to sustain listeners' interest on a round-the-clock basis. 'What this creature doesn't realise is that most of humanity's problems can be ascribed to an excess of media.
Terence Sharpe sings strongly as Sergeant Meryll and Gary Montaine makes Shadbolt a less odious creature than usual.
How can anyone blame the senator's wife for detesting a creature that any sane and civilized person would also detest?

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