| 词组 | creep |
| 释义 | creep Creep is one of an interesting class of English verbs having a long vowel in the infinitive and a short one in the past and past participle. In Middle English creep was a strong verb—one that is inflected by internal vowel change—that came over into the weak class in the 15th century, developing the now prevalent crept as past and past participle (the dental stop \\\\t\\\\ is the hallmark of past and past participle of weak verbs and also the clue to the regularity of this form). The dialectal crep and crope are survivors from Middle English. Like other members of this class—leap, kneel, dream—creep has developed an even more regular past and past participle with the same vowel as the infinitive: creeped. The OED has examples of creeped from a 17th-century playwright, an 18th-century historian, and a 19th-century anthropologist. It is still used in the 20th century. Most of our recent evidence for creeped comes from speech; we have seen little of it in print yet, where crept is usual. Here are some recent examples: • Bumbry may have creeped up —Tony Kubek, NBC baseball telecast, 5 Oct. 1983 • The shade which has now creeped across the court —Al Trautwig, USA network telecast, 18 Feb. 1984 • The interest rate has creeped up a little bit —Michael Ashe, Springfield (Mass.) news telecast, 11 July 1984 You might be interested in keeping your eyes and ears open for creeped. This verb has not yet settled down from the changes that began five centuries ago. |
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