creeping

adj.

1. （不知不觉地）逐渐发生的；缓慢行进的
   happening or moving gradually and not easily noticed
   1. creeping inflation
      慢慢加剧的通货膨胀

1. VERB (人或动物)悄悄地缓慢行进，蹑手蹑脚地移动
   When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.
   1. Back I go to the hotel and creep up to my room...
      我回到旅馆，蹑手蹑脚地上楼回到房间。
   2. The rabbit creeps away and hides in a hole.
      兔子悄悄溜走，藏进洞里。
2. VERB 缓慢移动
   If something creeps somewhere, it moves very slowly.
   1. Mist had crept in again from the sea.
      薄雾又从海面上弥漫过来了。
3. VERB 不知不觉地发生
   If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it.
   1. Insecurity might creep in...
      可能会不知不觉地产生不安全感。
   2. An increasing ratio of mistakes, perhaps induced by tiredness, crept into her game.
      可能是由于体力不支，她在比赛中的失误越来越多。
   3. ...a proposal that crept through unnoticed at the National Council in December...
      一项于12月份在全国委员会不声不响获得通过的提议
   4. Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes...
      现在他的其他主要作品又悄然出现在音乐会节目单上。
   5. Their organisation has been subjected to creeping privatisation since 1981.
      自1981年以来他们的组织已经被逐渐私有化了。
4. VERB (比率或数值)逐渐增长
   If a rate or number creeps up to a higher level, it gradually reaches that level.
   1. The inflation rate has been creeping up to 9.5 per cent...
      通货膨胀率已攀升至9.5%。
   2. The average number of students in each class is creeping up from three to four.
      每个班的平均学生人数已经从3人增长到了4人。
5. 讨厌鬼; (尤指)讨好卖乖的人，马屁精
   If you describe someone as a creep, you mean that you dislike them a great deal, especially because they are insincere and flatter people.
6. PHRASE 吓人;使惊慌;使心里发毛
   If someone or something gives you the creeps, they make you feel very nervous or frightened.
   1. I always hated that statue. It gave me the creeps.
      我一直都很讨厌那座雕像。它让我心里发毛。
7. to make someone's flesh creep → see: flesh

1. That idea has been creeping into our consciousness for some time.
   不知不觉间，那种想法在我们脑海里渐渐形成已经有一段时间了。
2. Now his other major works are creeping back into concert programmes
   现在他的其他主要作品又悄然出现在音乐会节目单上。
3. Their organisation has been subjected to creeping privatisation since 1981.
   自1981年以来他们的组织已经被逐渐私有化了。
4. The average number of students in each class is creeping up from three to four.
   每个班的平均学生人数已经从3人增长到了4人。
5. We saw two more wild cats creeping towards us in the darkness
   我们看见又有两只野猫在黑暗中悄悄向我们靠近。
6. Then they were shocked to see many strange creatures creeping or crawling on the ground like huge crickets.
   然后他们震惊地发现地上有许多爬行或蠕动着的生物，它们仿若巨大的蟋蟀。
7. This is the sound of money creeping out of the Greek banking system.
   这是钱从希腊银行系统中不断流出的声音。
8. The creeping tide of nationalisation eroded incentives for investment, and swept away the resources needed for private investment.
   逐渐兴起的国有化浪潮削弱了投资激励，卷走了私人投资所需的资源。
9. Creeping slowly towards the interior;
   慢慢地向内地爬行着；
10. I felt an insect creeping up my leg.
    我感觉到腿上有只虫在朝上爬。
11. Reduced the friction, might not need nearly to lubricate completely, strengthens has prevented the adhesion creeping motion the performance, increased the intensity the allowable load.
    减少了摩擦，几乎可以完全不需要润滑，加强了防止粘连蠕动的性能，增加了强度和容许负载。
12. Widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs.
    广泛分布的一个匍匐或直立灌木属。
13. I had a queer sensation as if a worm was creeping down my spine.
    我有一种可疑的感觉，好象有个虫子在顺着我的脊梁往下爬似的。
14. He has been creeping about with her all the spring.
    他跟她几经磨了一春的功夫了。
15. Anger was creeping into his voice.
    话音里不知不觉怒气冲冲了。
16. Many climbing ferns have long creeping rhizomes.
    许多攀援蕨类具有较长的蔓延根状茎。
17. He saw somebody creeping into the house through the open window last night.
    昨天晚上他看到有人顺着开着的窗户爬进了屋子。
18. Time is creeping on and we have done nothing.
    时间就快到了我们什么都没有做。
19. If your weight starts creeping back up, modify the foods you are eating and the amounts.
    如果你的体重开始逐渐备份，修改了食品你吃的数额。
20. A climbing fern; plants of a creeping or scandent nature.
    攀缘的蕨类植物；有上爬生或攀缘特性的植物。
21. Oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant.
    从匍匐生根的鹿蹄草或冬青植物中提取出来的油或调味品。
22. Perennial marsh plants with creeping rootstocks and long linear leaves.
    沼泽地的多年生植物具有匍匐的根状茎和长线性叶。
23. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
    一个热带植物属，具有匍匐的根茎和小的伞形花。
24. Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping.
    梦幻静静地蔓延，在我睡觉的时候留下了它的种子。
25. The statues cast long creeping shadows.
    塑像投下了长长的、缓缓蠕动的影子。
26. There were rumours that something was creeping up on them and taking them.
    谣传说有东西爬到他们身上，吃了他们。
27. Low-growing bristly shrub of southern Oregon and California with creeping rootstocks and usually corymbose flowers.
    俄勒冈南部和加利福尼亚的一种矮生灌木，有刚毛和匍匐根茎，通常为伞房花序。
28. With suspicion and mistrust creeping into Palace halls.
    随着宫廷中悄然出现的猜疑和不信任。
29. The relation of stability and creeping reason and its method for correction of balance circuit were analyzed.
    分析了液压平衡回路稳定性与爬行原因及排除方法的关系。

noun

1. a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
   1. a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
   2. the traffic moved at a creep

   Synonym:    crawlcrawlingcreep