stoops

英 [stuːps]

美 [stuːps]

v.  俯身; 弯腰; (站立或行走时)弓背
n.  曲背; 驼背; 门廊
stoop的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (站立或行走时)弓背，驼背
  If youstoop, you stand or walk with your shoulders bent forwards.
  1. She was taller than he was and stooped slightly.
     她比他高，而且略微有些驼背。
  2. Stoopis also a noun.
     
  3. He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
     他是个瘦高个儿，有点驼背。
• VERB 弯腰;俯身
  If youstoop, you bend your body forwards and downwards.
  1. He stooped to pick up the carrier bag of groceries...
     他俯下身去提装着食品杂货的购物袋。
  2. Two men in shirt sleeves stooped over the car...
     两名穿衬衣的男子趴在那辆汽车上。
  3. Stooping down, he picked up a big stone and hurled it.
     他俯身捡起一块大石头扔了出去。
• VERB 堕落(或卑鄙)到去做
  If you say that a personstoops todoing something, you are criticizing them because they do something wrong or immoral that they would not normally do.
  1. He had not, until recently, stooped to personal abuse...
     他以前从未像最近这样卑鄙到进行人身攻击。
  2. They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal...
     他们已经无耻到把能用的武器都用上了。
  3. How could anyone stoop so low?
     怎么会有人堕落到这种地步？
• N-COUNT 门廊;门阶
  Astoopis a small platform at the door of a building, with steps leading up to it.
  1. They stood together on the stoop and rang the bell.
     他们一起站在门廊上按响了门铃。

双语例句

• He stoops to pick up the money on the ground.
  他俯身拾起地上的钱。
• Chinese Contribution towards Comedy-An Analysis on Comedy of Manners She Stoops to Compromise of WANG Wen-xian;
  中国人对于喜剧的一种贡献&析王文显的世态喜剧《委曲求全》
• Xie Jing Lian, a retired calligrapher, stoops over a flagstone walk as he draws Chinese characters with a large wet brush.
  谢景连（音译）是一名退休的书法家。他弯著腰，用一把巨大的刷子，蘸著水，在石板路上书写汉字。
• He's over six feet tall, but the way he stoops makes him look shorten.
  他身高6英尺多，但他弓背的样子使他看上去矮了一些。
• The man stoops with age.
  那个男人因年老而身体。
• The old man stoops.
  老人已驼背了。
• It's only a few stoops from here.
  从这儿过去只有几站路。
• But he did not carry his finery like a hog in armour, as an Englishman so often does when an Englishman stoops to be fine.
  英国人迫不得已穿上华美服装，看起来总有些别扭，但他却不是这个样子。
• She stoops to turn down his trouser ends.
  她弯下腰去把卷起的裤脚放下来。
• I know it has stars that talk to him, and a sky that stoops down to his face to amuse him with its silly clouds and rainbows.
  我知道有星星同他说话，天空也在他面前垂下，用它傻傻的云朵和彩虹来娱悦他。