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单词 stoop
释义
stoop
verb[I]
uk
/stuːp/us
/stuːp/
tobendthetophalfof thebodyforwardand down:
俯身，弯腰
Thedoorwaywas solowthat we had to stoop to go through it.门道太低，我们不得不弯下腰进去。
Somethingfellout of hercoatpocketand she stoopeddownandpickedit 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,theirheadandshouldersare alwaysbentforwardsand down:
佝偻，弓背
He's over sixfeettall, but the way he stoops makes himlookshorter.他身高超过6英尺，但他弓着背，显得矮了一些。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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
  • slump
  • slumped
  • sprawl
  • stooped

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stooped

Phrasal verb

stoop tosomething
stoop
noun
uk
/stuːp/us
/stuːp/

stoopnoun(STEPS)

[C]US
araisedflatareainfrontof thedoorof ahouse, withstepsleadingup to it:
门廊，门阶
She gothometofindthekidssittingon the stoopwaitingfor her.她回到家，发现孩子们正坐在门廊上等她。
picture of stoop
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Parts of buildings: stairs & lifts
  • chairlift
  • chute
  • drag lift
  • dumb waiter
  • elevator
  • escalator
  • fire escape
  • flight
  • ladder
  • lift
  • riser
  • rope ladder
  • rung
  • stair
  • staircase
  • stairlift
  • step
  • stepladder
  • stoep
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stoopnoun(BEND)

[S]
a way ofstandingorwalkingwith theheadandshouldersbentslightlyforwardsand down:
驼背，弓背
He is atallman withaslightstoop.他是个高个子，有点儿驼背。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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
  • slump
  • slumped
  • sprawl
  • stooped
(Definition ofstoopfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

stoop| American Dictionary

stoop
verb[I]
us
/stup/

stoopverb[I](BEND)

tobendthetophalfof thebodyforwardand down:
Themotherstooped tobuttonup thecoatof her littlegirl.
stoop
noun
us
/stup/

stoopnoun(STEPS)

[C]
astructurethat ispartof thefrontof ahouseconsisting of a fewstepsleadingup fromgroundlevel, often with araised,flatareanear thedoor

stoopnoun(BEND)

[U]
abendingof thetophalfof thebodyforwardand down:
Hewalkswith a stoop because ofarthritis.
(Definition ofstoopfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstoop

stoop
In this garden sixty years ago a golden snake stooped at the water trough.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Seldom does he treat any writing in particular or the circumstances of its composition, nor does hestoopto close textual or rhetorical analysis.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It also asks them how often they have to lift heavy loads andstoop, kneel, or crouch at work.
From theCambridge English Corpus
She looked so little, like a ten-year-old - but slightly stooped and not at all lively except in her face.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Activities such as walking, stooping, kneeling or running may be ascribed culturally specific meanings, which in turn impact on their experience.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Why the apology, as though stooping to what has after all been the driving motive of much transformative critical work?
From theCambridge English Corpus
During recess, the stylobates transform into stoops.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The two groups both carry heavy loads, but the timber dockers commonly lift and carry in the erect posture and the general dockers habituallystoopto lift.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I accept that solicitors must advertise for business, but stooping to that kind of campaign is unacceptable.
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That indicates the ridiculous lengths to which opponents of the amendment have tostoopin order to try to defeat it.
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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.
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I do not know where his eyesight is, or where his nostrils are, for if he stoops down to the ground he will know.
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To blame school janitors for part of the problem is tostoopto desperate levels.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is an indication of the depths to which they themselves wouldstoopif they ever had the opportunity.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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