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creature

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crea·ture /ˈkriːtʃə $ -ər/ ●●● W3 noun [countableC]  
1  LIVING THINGHBliving thing 生物 anything that is living, such as an animal, fish, or insect, but not a plant 生物；动物
 all the living creatures in the sea
海洋中所有的生物
creatures of the deep (=animals and fish that live in the ocean) 海洋生物
► see thesaurus at animal
2  STRANGEHBTTSimaginary or strange 想象的或奇异的 an imaginary animal or person, or one that is very strange and frightening 不可名状的生物，怪物
 creatures from outer space
来自外太空的生物
3. a creature of habit HABITsomeone who always does things in the same way or at the same time 墨守成规的人
Examples from the Corpus
a creature of habit• Probably not - I am a creature of habit.• Taurus is a fixed sign, which means you are a creature of habit and are fond of material comforts.• But I was comfortable in it, ever a creature of habit as I told you earlier.
4  STH made or invented 制造或发明的东西 formalsomething MADE OR INVENTEDINVENT something, especially something bad, that was made or invented by a particular person or organization 创造物〔尤指不好的东西〕；产物
creature of
 The poll tax was a creature of the government.
人头税是政府的发明。
5  SB controlled by STH 受某物控制的某人somebody CONTROLLED BY somethingCONTROL someone who is controlled or influenced a lot by something 受支配的人，傀儡，奴才
creature of
 He was a creature of the military government.
他是军政府的傀儡。
6  beautiful/stupid/adorable etc creature literaryPERSON/PEOPLE someone who has a particular character or quality 漂亮的/愚蠢的/讨人喜欢的人等
 He was the most beautiful creature Dot had ever seen.
他是多特见到过的最漂亮的人。
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beautiful/stupid/adorable etc creature• To me, Dominic was always a beautiful creature.• His doe's a beautiful creature, too.• The Copper Beech Naiads were the most beautiful creatures any of them had ever seen.• Dominic remains, I would say, a preposterously beautiful creature.• Drank five margaritas and waxed poetic about my screenplay to some adorable creature.• It is the same with visual responses to light and darkness, to summer and winter, to beautiful creatures or plants.• I was there till I was eighteen: marriage would be fun; husbands were adorable creatures.• They were beautiful creatures with red legs, black head and thorax, and black white-ringed antennae.
n COLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + creature
a living creature
The early Greeks believed that plants were living creatures that felt pain and pleasure.
a little/small/tiny creature
tiny creatures such as mice
a beautiful/magnificent creature
The buffalo is a magnificent creature.
a wild creature
Damage to the environment affects all wild creatures.
a sea/marine creature (also an ocean creature)
The first living creatures were marine creatures.
a furry creature
Town dwellers see the squirrel as a cute furry creature, but to farmers they’re a pest.
a dangerous creature
dangerous creatures such as tigers
a nocturnal creature (=awake at night and sleeping in the day)
As darkness falls, nocturnal creatures begin to make an appearance.
a primitive/simple creature (=one with only a few cells)
primitive creatures like bacteria
a complex creature (=consisting of many different parts)
Human beings are extremely complex creatures.
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creature• creatures of the deep• The Housing Board was a creature of Mayor Beller's design.• The movie's about creatures from outer space.• But they, like all creatures, clearly have their own inner life.• Higher still up the Sizewell natural food chain is another creature we had gone especially to find-marine skuas.• They were rare, complex creatures of overwhelming confidence, persistence and ambition.• The pull of the invisible creature grew stronger.• The scale and spirit of the iron creatures on display brought to mind one image: mechanical dinosaurs without skin.• They found a fossil of a small, sparrow-like creature.• Jainism, a Hindu reform church, prohibits the killing of any living creature.• Great big and fearsome Dimetrodon, a species of dinosaur, was the most powerful creature.
living creatures• Every living creature is a product of its past.• I will never again destroy every living creature as I have done.• It was evening; not a house, not a living creature, was to be seen.• Our perception of parrots as somehow our rightful property has been destructive for the living creature in its natural environment.• The living creature that I had briefly been might never have existed.• This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.• It is a small self-enclosed world with its own miniature atmosphere derived from living creatures.• He enraged biologists by considering the biosphere of living creatures as a large chemical factory.
Origin creature
(1200-1300) Old French Late Latin creatura, from Latin creare; → CREATE
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