creatures

英 [ˈkriːtʃəz]

美 [ˈkritʃərz]

n.  生物; 动物; (具有某种特征的)人
creature的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (尤指不熟悉或想象中的)生物，动物
  You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as acreature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings ascreatures.
  1. Alaskan Eskimos believe that every living creature possesses a spirit...
     阿拉斯加的爱斯基摩人认为每一个活着的生物都有灵魂。
  2. The garden is surrounded by a hedge in which many small creatures can live...
     花园四周是树篱，许多小动物可以在那里栖身。
  3. They have been visited by creatures from outer space.
     有外星人拜访了他们。
• 她很迷人，是个可人儿。 → see:She's charming, a sweet creature...
• N-COUNT 傀儡;奴才;走狗
  If you describe someone as someone else'screature, you mean that they are controlled by or depend on that person.
  1. We are not creatures of the Conservative government.
     我们不是保守派政府的傀儡。

双语例句

• Blue dragons were once solitary creatures, and thus their society does not have a rigid hierarchy.
  蓝龙们曾经是独居的生物，因此他们的社会并没有一个严格的阶层关系。
• He told of faraway lands, beautiful maidens and mysterious one-eyed creatures.
  他描述了遥远的国土、美丽的少女和神秘的独眼兽。
• The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their young.
  最凶猛的禽兽，见人家抚摸它的幼雏也会驯服起来的。
• The liquid is fatal to small insects and creatures and can be very painful to humans.
  这种液体对一些小的昆虫和生物是致命的，也可以对人来带来痛苦的威胁。
• 8. Halloween is also associated with supernatural creatures like ghosts and vampires.
  万圣节还和一些诸如鬼魂和吸血鬼之类的超自然的生物有关。
• Basal metabolism is much lower for creatures in cold water.
  冷水中生物的基础代谢速度要低很多。
• I have several little creatures.
  嗯，我有养。我养了很多小动物。
• Children's books often depict farmyard animals as gentle, lovable creatures.
  儿童图书常常把农场的动物描写得温和而可爱。
• There are only two creatures who can surmount the pyramids-the eagle and the snail.
  能登上金字塔的动物只有两种&雄鹰和蜗牛。
• On earth there are lives of creatures less mentally-civilized which overawed mankind all the more.
  尤其是世界上“竟然”会存在一些禽兽不如的“生物”，那就更加让人望而生畏了。