creep是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vi. 慢慢地、 悄悄地移动; (时间、 年纪) 悄悄过去; 蔓延，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They did not creep far, before they stopped and stood upright.
-- When the village had taken its poor supper, it did not creep to bed, as it usu-ally did, but came out of doors again, and remained there.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But sud-denly it occurred to him that he might stoop down under the table, and then creep unobserved out of the door.
-- The boxes were 82 Andersen's Fairy Talesvery high, and the children knew that they must not creep over them; so they often obtained permission to get out of the windows to each other, and to sit on their little stools among the roses, where they could play delight fully.
-- The roof reached to the ground; and the door was so low, that the family were obliged to creep upon their stomachs when they went in or out.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do that t'morrow--do that t'morrow," buzzed in her brain, an irritating inescapable refrain, while she was suspended over sleep, conscious of how much she wanted to creep into his arms.
-- But the rapture of being allowed to work twenty- four hours a day without leaving an experiment at its juiciest moment to creep home for dinner, of plunging with Terry into arguments as cryptic as theology and furious as the indignation of a drunken man, carried him along, and he felt himself growing sinewy.
-- Mind you!When this place becomes a shrine, and a lot of cranks begin to creep in here, then you and I got to beat it, Slim.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
-- 'A Napoleon creep under an old woman's bed!Ugh, how loathsome!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as I could creep away, I crept upstairs.
-- Then, maybe, Mas'r Davy, seein' none butMissis Gummidge there, she might take heart to creep in,trembling; and might come to be laid down in her old bed, and resther weary head where it was once so gay.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned; and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins, is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She allowed a very small smile to creep for the first time over her serious face in saying this, and the white row of upper teeth, and keenly-cut lips already noticed, suggested an idea of heartlessness, which was immediately contradicted by the pleasant eyes.
-- We shall be home by three o'clock or so, and can creep into the parish like lambs."
-- That Bathsheba could not endure this man was evident; in fact, he was continually coming to her with some tale or other, by which he might creep into favour at the expense of persons maligned.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yes, it was good to creep back into bed and know that Ellen was abroad in the night and everything was right.
-- In a minute, she'd feel all right and then she'd slip quietly intothe little dressing room adjoining India's room, unloose her stays and creep in and lay herself on one of the beds besidethe sleeping girls.
-- And how theywould all laugh now!Clammy perspiration, starting under her armpits, began to creep down her ribs.
-- Scarlett felt her heart beat faster as the sweet melancholy of the waltz came to her: "The years creep slowly by, Lorena!
-- To make matters worse, a vague distrust of those in high places had begun to creep over the civilian population.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A boy may lock his door, may be warm in bed, may tuck himself up, may draw the clothes over his head, may think himself comfortable and safe, but that young man will softly creep and creep his way to him and tear him open.
-- It was ten o'clock at night before we ventured to creep in again, and then she asked Joe why he hadn't married a Negress Slave at once?
-- He would always creep in-shore like some uncomfortable amphibious creature, even when the tide would have sent him fast upon his way; and I always think of him as coming after us in the dark or by the back-water, when our own two boats were breaking the sunset or the moonlight in mid-stream.
扩展阅读：