(noun.) a human being; `wight' is an archaic term.
(noun.) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else.
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双语例句
How we shall conciliate this little creature, said Mrs. Bretton to me, I don't know: she tastes nothing, and by her looks, she has not slept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Do hear the horrid creature talk! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
And who is that nice good-natured looking creature with her--a flame of yours? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Evelyn was the only mirthful creature present: he sat on Clara's lap; and, making matter of glee from his own fancies, laughed aloud. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Such a poor weak little creature! 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
I wondered, as I looked at this fair creature: I admired her with my whole heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
No, no,' pleaded the absurd creature. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
But some sense that perhaps the economic man is not a self-evident creature seems to have touched our author. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Try it,' said the little creature, with an excited and exultant face. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
The poor creature interrupted me with loud sobs, which produced such a dreadful fit of coughing, I thought that she would have expired on the spot. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered, vaguely, why she was so deeply moved--so anxious to know the whereabouts of this strange creature. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Now, said the physician, we must turn all these creatures out; all depends on his being kept quiet. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
But think of all these poor creatures, said Cassy. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
Mercenary creatures ask, 'What is the use of a man's going to the North Pole? 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
What strange creatures brothers are! 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
His resolutions and actions affect a greater number of his fellow-creatures. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing? 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
Why, said Miss Ophelia, bluntly, I suppose you think your servants are human creatures, and ought to have some rest when they are tired. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
What a plague those creatures are--staring at me so! 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
And what is each human being worth, if he do not put forth his strength to aid his fellow-creatures? 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Here, too, the bride's aunt and next relation; a widowed female of a Medusa sort, in a stoney cap, glaring petrifaction at her fellow-creatures. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Relieve us from this fear, and we shall be the happiest creatures in the world. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.