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stoop是什么意思

stoop

英 [stuːp] 美 [stʊp]
  • vi. 弯腰;屈服;堕落
  • n. 弯腰,屈背;屈服
  • vt. 辱没,堕落;俯曲
  • n. (Stoop)人名;(法、荷、葡)斯托普

stoop 助记提示


stoop............似兔扑(扑倒在地).....像兔子一样扑到在地......屈身;弯腰

分析:stop——停止;o——像蛋。
记忆:他停下来,弯腰捡起了一只蛋。

stoop 中文词源


stoop 俯身,弯腰,曲背,驼背

来自古英语 stupian,弯腰,俯身,来自 Proto-Germanic*stup,弯腰,来自 PIE*steup,扩大形式 自 PIE*steu,推,击,打,词源同 steep,type.引申诸相关词义。

stoop 英文词源


stoop
stoop: see steep
stoop (v.)
"bend forward," Old English stupian "to bow, bend," from Proto-Germanic *stup- (cognates: Middle Dutch stupen "to bow, bend," Norwegian stupa "fall, drop"), from PIE *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see steep (adj.)). Figurative sense of "condescend," especially expressing a lowering of the moral self, is from 1570s. Sense of "swoop" is first recorded 1570s in falconry. Related: Stooped; stooping. The noun meaning "an act of stooping" is from c. 1300. Stoop-shouldered attested from 1773.
stoop (n.)
"raised open platform at the entrance of a house," 1755, American and Canadian, from Dutch stoep "flight of steps, doorstep, threshold," from Middle Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *stap- "step" (see step (v.)).
This, unlike most of the words received [in American English] from the Dutch, has extended, in consequence of the uniform style of building that prevails throughout the country, beyond the bounds of New York State, as far as the backwoods of Canada. [Bartlett]
Also in South African English as stoep.

stoop 双语例句


1. He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
他是个瘦高个儿,有点驼背。

来自柯林斯例句

2. They stood together on the stoop and rang the bell.
他们一起站在门廊上按响了门铃。

来自柯林斯例句

3. They will stoop to every low-down trick.
他们什么卑劣的手段都使得出来。

来自柯林斯例句

4. I refuse to stoop to such bullying tactics.
我拒绝下作到使用这种霸道手段.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. But Stoop was not going to let himself be just an apartment cat.
Stoop并不想使自己成为一只家猫.

来自英语晨读30分(初三)

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