creak是什么意思

双语用例

• He said that statistics were like a rather creaking machine and were not always relevant to the problem being faced.

• The principle that the users of the tunnel should pay for the burden of debt interest is obviously creaking loudly.

• Our current company law is creaking with age.

• As at present organised, they are constantly groaning and creaking under the burden of their increased criminal business.

• What we need is the efficient management of a system which creaks.

• Examining boards are often creaking under strain and disillusioned students are weary of taking exam after exam.

• I submit that that is a mistake and that it propagates a system that is creaking at the seams.

• There are two ways of reforming any part of our system which is creaking.