1·I was really up the creek without my car.
离了我那辆汽车真是不方便。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·You see, the melting of ice water to wake up the creek.
你看，融化的冰水把小溪弄醒了。
3·If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek.
如果你没有持续地听到批评的声音，那你就真的陷于困境了。
4·Being up the creek without a paddle, means you are in a bad situation.
过河却没有桨意思是你处于一个不好形势中。
5·But now I'm up the creek; I certainly don't have the tuition money and I hate to ask dad to pay it.
但是现在我可进退两难了：我自己当然没钱交学费，而我实在不愿意向爸爸开口要。
6·But now I "m up the creek; I certainly don" t have the tuition money and I hate to ask dad to pay it.
但是现在我可进退两难了：我自己当然没钱交学费，而我实在不愿意向爸爸开口要。
7·Afterwards some of us go canoeing out to the beavers' dam up the creek while the big guys stick around the camp to fish.
早餐后，我和一些人去划船，划到小河上游的海狸坝；大汉们则留在营地附近钓鱼。
8·Very warily he paddled up to the mouth of the creek, and was just passing under the bridge, when ... CRASH!
他小心翼翼地划到河湾口，正从桥下经过，突然……哗啦一声！
9·Cedar Creek Treehouse is 80 miles south of Seattle and is set 50 feet up in a 200-year-old western red cedar tree, right in the canopy of a lush temperate rainforest on the base of Mount Rainier.
树屋旅馆位于西雅图以南80英里处草木苍翠的雷尼尔山雨林中，建在50英尺高处的一棵200岁的红香柏树上。
10·I grew up watching my mother complete that house from the rocks she'd lifted from the creek and cement she mixed in a wheelbarrow-cement that today still bears her handprints.
在我成长的过程中，我见证了母亲用从小河里拣来的石头和在独轮车里搅和的水泥盖好那座房子——直到今天，她的手指印还留在那水泥上面。