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单词 creak
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creak
verb[I]
uk
/kriːk/us
/kriːk/
When adoor,floorboard, etc. creaks, it makes alonglowsoundwhen itmovesor ismoved:
（门、地板等）嘎吱作响
Thedoorcreaked onitshinges.门打开时合页处嘎吱作响。
Iheardthefloorboardscreak as hecreptcloser.他蹑手蹑脚走近时我听见地板嘎吱嘎吱地响。
Synonym
squeak
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creak
noun[C]
uk
/kriːk/us
/kriːk/
anoisemade when something creaks:
嘎吱声
Ihearda creak on thestairs.我听见楼梯上嘎吱一声响。
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  • babble
  • blaze
  • chuff
  • clatter
  • click away
  • clicker
  • clinking
  • clunk
  • crump
  • gunshot
  • hiss
  • jangling
  • pip
  • plunk
  • putter
  • scrunch
  • sonic boom
  • tick
  • white noise
  • whoosh
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(Definition ofcreakfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

creak| American Dictionary

creak
verb[I]
us
/krik/
to make a highnoise, usuallycausedby astiffmaterialsuch aswoodormetalthat is made tomoveslightly:
Theoldfloorboardscreaked when Iwalkedacrossthefloor.
Heheardaprisoncelldoorcreakopenandslamshut.

creak

noun[C]us
/krik/
Thekitchendoorhas anannoyingcreak when youcloseit.

creaky

adjectiveus
/ˈkri·ki/
a creakyelevator
(Definition ofcreakfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcreak

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The principle that the users of the tunnel should pay for the burden of debt interest is obviously creaking loudly.
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Our current company law is creaking with age.
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As at present organised, they are constantly groaning and creaking under the burden of their increased criminal business.
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What we need is the efficient management of a system which creaks.
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Examining boards are often creaking under strain and disillusioned students are weary of taking exam after exam.
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I submit that that is a mistake and that it propagates a system that is creaking at the seams.
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There are two ways of reforming any part of our system which is creaking.
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Of course the system is creaking at the limits; that is the problem we seek to remedy through the public-private partnership.
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The system that we have had in this country is creaking under the strain.
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The union itself is creaking at the joints and its future is uncertain.
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They sound all very well until one remembers how much our parliamentary system is creaking from an overload at the moment.
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There has been the problem of obtaining ever-increasing revenue from the rating system, which has been creaking at the seams.
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Is not the whole machinery of medical certification creaking with anomalies, and badly in need of a complete overhaul?
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They are simple improvements of a type that we never get around to—like mending the staircase that always creaked in grandad's day.
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She must face the truth that the capitalist system is creaking at the joints.
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