creek是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 小川， 小湾，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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They camped at the foot of the Alps, on the banks of the creek of Cobongra, on the edge of a little plain, covered with little shrubs four feet high, with bright red leaves which gladdened the eye.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the narrowest part, that is to say between the Chimneys and the creek on the western shore, which corresponded to it in latitude, the island only measured ten miles; but its greatest length, from the jaws at the northeast to the extremity of the tail of the southwest, was not less than thirty miles.
-- They therefore followed the crest of one of the spurs, between which the creek that supplied the lake probably had its source.
-- From this color, the name of Red Creek was immediately given to the watercourse.
-- The limpid waters of the Red Creek flowed under an arch of casuannas, banksias, and gigantic gum-trees.
-- The excess of water furnished by the Red Creek must also escape by so me channel or other.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had they seen this, there would not have been a creek nor grip that had not been filled with their dead as they fled back again.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I emerged bleeding and with torn clothes upon the lip of a long creek opening northward.
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