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单词 creature
释义
creature
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkriː.tʃər/us
/ˈkriː.tʃɚ/
B1
anylargeorsmalllivingthing that canmoveindependently:
生物；动物
Rainforests arefilledwithamazingcreatures.雨林中满是奇异的生灵。
Don't alllivingcreatures havecertainrights?难道不是一切生物都具有某些权利吗？
Bluewhalesare thelargestcreatureseverto havelived.蓝鲸是有生命以来最大的动物。
used to refer to alifeformthat isunusualorimaginary:
（神秘不寻常的）怪物，生物；（想象出来的）生物
Theunicornis amythicalcreature.独角兽是神话中虚构出来的动物。
Thefilmwas about creatures fromouterspace.影片讲述的是来自外部空间的怪物。
The duck-billedplatypusis atrulybizarrecreature.鸭嘴兽的确是一种奇异的动物。
used to refer to apersonwhen anopinionis beingexpressedabout them:
…的人
Johnis astrange/weak/patheticcreature.约翰是个怪人／软弱的人／可怜人。
Alovelyblondecreature(= abeautifulblondewoman)walkedinto theroom.一位美丽的金发女郎走进了房间。
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  • Theunicornis afabulouscreature.
  • Strangely, no onebelievedus when we told them we'd beenvisitedby a creature fromMars.
  • Wesawmany creatures of theforest.
  • Hisbookexaminesthesymbolismof manymythicalcreatures.
  • Thelogwashometo allsortsof little creatures.
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Mythological & legendary characters
People in general

Idioms

be the creature ofsomeone/something
creature of habit
(Definition ofcreaturefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

creature| American Dictionary

creature
noun[C]
us
/ˈkri·tʃər/
anylivingthing,esp. ananimal
A creature can be apersonwhen anopinionis beingexpressedabout them:
Itseemsclearto me thatpeopleare creatures ofemotion.

Idiom

creature of habit
(Definition ofcreaturefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcreature

creature
The front cover is graced by a group of indisputably bird-like creatures.
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Moral accomplishments, in a world of creatures immune to harm, would not matter.
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Suppose the best world a given omnipotent and omniscient creator could actualize contains creatures who endure incredible amounts of pain.
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The apparent alternative is not to create any free creatures or else not leave them significantly free.
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He believes that: "the field needs some application successes, tools to understand biological systems, and the consideration of features of biological creatures such as metabolism".
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Another, less ambitious, possibility is that creatures' actions merely satisfy the principles.
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Many virtual creatures are intended by their human creators as computer simulations of real life.
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The alleged incoherence thus consists in being committed to holding that creatures are both continuants and non-continuants.
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Such creatures would be ' perfectly reasonable ' in the sense that they could never be weak-willed in their pursuit of the good.
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I see no reason to suppose that an omnipotent creator would be unable to produce creatures like these.
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What understanding of the creature's causal contribution will allow us to maintain that such theories really are co-operative ?
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Of two creatures in nature it is the one with a more truthful and reliable picture of the world that survives and propagates its genes.
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After all, such beings would want their creatures to know all sorts of things about them.
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Sightings of man-like creatures that continued to be reported, by both sailors and fishermen, fuelled the many folk legends that developed.
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His creatures are interactive with other machines, commencing with simple patterns of behaviour and evolving to more complex ones.
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Collocationswithcreature

creature

These are words often used in combination withcreature.

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alien creature
The object of having thealiencreatureis, so we are told, to improve access to justice.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
aquatic creature
The moment any smallaquaticcreaturetouches the inside of the bill -- an insect, crustacean, or tiny fish -- it is snapped shut.
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beautiful creature
It was clearly the husband's fault; he marched off with somebeautifulcreatureleaving the wife and children and everything else.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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