creep up on

基本解釋

Love seems to creep up on you.
愛情似乎是悄悄降臨。
Labor while you are young and in the prime of your strength, for soon enough a tottering old age will creep up on you.
趁著你年輕力壯時(shí)的鼎盛年華努力工作吧，因?yàn)椴铰嫩橎堑睦夏旰芸炀蜁?huì)悄然而至。（奧維德）
The hypothetical boiled frog is a useful metaphor for a very real problem: the difficulty of responding to disasters that creep up on you a bit at a time.
虛構(gòu)的煮熟青蛙對(duì)一個(gè)非常實(shí)際的問題而言，是個(gè)很實(shí)用的隱喻。這問題是：因應(yīng)不知不覺中臨頭的災(zāi)難，是件難事。
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"Hopefully, we see those recycling rates really creep up, and I hope that we are on the leading edge of that."

The idea is to creep up on a budget deal by a series of small steps.
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So the Ethiopian changed his skin to a blackish brown, which allowed him to creep up on them.
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"When you start to see the age creep up on a show like that, you wonder whether the show is sustainable, " says Laura Caraccioli-Davis, head of entertainment at Starcom, a media planning agency.
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