| 词汇 | stoop |
| 释义 | stoop verb[ I ] uk /stuːp/ us /stuːp/ to bend the top half of the body forward and down: 俯身，弯腰 The doorway was so low that we had to stoop to go through it.门道太低，我们不得不弯下腰进去。 Something fell out of her coat pocket and she stooped down and picked it up.有个东西从她大衣口袋里掉了出来，她俯下身捡了起来。 If someone stoops, their head and shoulders are always bent forwards and down: 佝偻，弓背 He's over six feet tall, but the way he stoops makes him look shorter.他身高超过6英尺，但他弓着背，显得矮了一些。 Not holding the body upright bent double bowed cower crouch double double (someone) up/over huddled hunch hunched loll lounge lounge around (something) scrunch slouch slouchy slump slumped sprawl stooped Related wordstooped Phrasal verbstoop to something stoop noun uk /stuːp/ us /stuːp/ stoopnoun (STEPS)[ C ]US a raised flat area in front of the door of a house, with steps leading up to it: 门廊，门阶 She got home to find the kids sitting on the stoop waiting for her.她回到家，发现孩子们正坐在门廊上等她。 William Self/GettyImages Parts of buildings: stairs & lifts chairlift chute drag lift dumb waiter elevator escalator fire escape flight ladder lift rope ladder rung stair staircase stairlift step step-free stepladder stoep tread stoopnoun (BEND)[ S ] a way of standing or walking with the head and shoulders bent slightly forwards and down: 驼背，弓背 He is a tall man with a slight stoop.他是个高个子，有点儿驼背。 Not holding the body upright bent double bowed cower crouch double double (someone) up/over huddled hunch hunched loll lounge lounge around (something) scrunch slouch slouchy slump slumped sprawl stooped stoop | American Dictionarystoop verb[ I ] us/stup/ stoopverb[I] (BEND)to bend the top half of the body forward and down: The mother stooped to button up the coat of her little girl. stoop noun us/stup/ stoopnoun (STEPS)[ C ] a structure that is part of the front of a house consisting of a few steps leading up from ground level, often with a raised, flat area near the door stoopnoun (BEND)[ U ] a bending of the top half of the body forward and down: He walks with a stoop because of arthritis. Examples of stoopstoop In this garden sixty years ago a golden snake stooped at the water trough. Seldom does he treat any writing in particular or the circumstances of its composition, nor does he stoop to close textual or rhetorical analysis. It also asks them how often they have to lift heavy loads and stoop, kneel, or crouch at work. She looked so little, like a ten-year-old - but slightly stooped and not at all lively except in her face. Activities such as walking, stooping, kneeling or running may be ascribed culturally specific meanings, which in turn impact on their experience. Why the apology, as though stooping to what has after all been the driving motive of much transformative critical work? During recess, the stylobates transform into stoops. He is an old man who stoops, who can't walk or can hardly walk, who is nearly completely deaf, who cannot communicate to me at all. The two groups both carry heavy loads, but the timber dockers commonly lift and carry in the erect posture and the general dockers habitually stoop to lift. I accept that solicitors must advertise for business, but stooping to that kind of campaign is unacceptable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That indicates the ridiculous lengths to which opponents of the amendment have to stoop in order to try to defeat it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Throughout the war we never stooped to the level of distorting the facts in order to convince other countries that we were in the right. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know where his eyesight is, or where his nostrils are, for if he stoops down to the ground he will know. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To blame school janitors for part of the problem is to stoop to desperate levels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is an indication of the depths to which they themselves would stoop if they ever had the opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of stoop These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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