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Translation of creaky – English–Traditional Chinese dictionary

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creaky
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UK  /ˈkriː.ki / US  /ˈkriː.ki /

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Something that is creaky creaks.

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嘎吱作響的

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嘎吱作響的鉸鏈／椅⼦／床
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used to describe something that is old-fashioned and

not now effective

過時的;破舊的;搖搖欲墜的

• the creaky legal system  

老朽過時的司法制度
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Related words ecotarian

creakily
UK  /ˌiː.kəʊˈteə.ri.ən/
creakiness US  /ˌiː.koʊˈter.i.ən/

(Translation of creaky from the Cambridge English-Chinese (Traditional) Dictionary © a person who only eats food
Cambridge University Press) produced or prepared in a way that
does not harm the environment
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creaky
The call has been described as loud and creaky.
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Similarly, creaky vowels tend to confine their creakiness to the first

part of the vowel, often with glottal closure before modal voice: as
or.
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The mechanism to deal with the problem is, to say the least, creaky.
World-famous and newfound
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fame (Collocations of ‘famous’
They run in spurts on the ground but take to flight with a hoarse and ‘fame’)
creaky "gwaat" call.
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Dusty furniture and creaky hinges seem to be the only problems
with the place at first glance.
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Full or partial closure of the glottis also allows glottalic airstream

mechanisms to operate, producing ejective or implosive consonants,
which (implosives) may themselves have modal, stiff, or creaky
voice.
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Lupoff also wrote that while today's reader may find her prose
creaky and old-fashioned, the stories positively teem with still-fresh NEW WORDS
and provocative ideas.
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The nature of the acute feature itself is unclear; it has variously been
reconstructed as additional vowel length, the presence of a glottal More new words
stop, creaky voice, etc.
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嘎吱作响的, 过时的, 破旧的…
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chirriante, que cruje,

anticuado…
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que range, antiquado,

rangente
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