stoop

verb

/stuːp/

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they stoop	/stuːp/ /stuːp/
he / she / it stoops	/stuːps/ /stuːps/
past simple stooped	/stuːpt/ /stuːpt/
past participle stooped	/stuːpt/ /stuːpt/
-ing form stooping	/ˈstuːpɪŋ/ /ˈstuːpɪŋ/

Idioms Phrasal Verbs

[intransitive] stoop (down) to bend your body forwards and downwards俯身；弯腰
- She stooped down to pick up the child.她俯身抱起孩子。
- The doorway was so low that he had to stoop.门廊很矮，他低下头才过去。
[intransitive] to stand or walk with your head and shoulders bent forwards（站立或行走时）弓背
- He tends to stoop because he's so tall.他个子太高了，所以时常弓着背。
Topics Appearancec2

词源verb Old English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep. The noun sense dates from the late 16th cent.

Idioms

sink/stoop to a new/an all-time low

to behave in a worse way than ever before（站立或行走时）弓背
- The government has stooped to an all-time low with this policy.政府的这项政策已经降到了历史最低点。
- Reality TV has sunk to new lows.真人秀跌至新低。

stoop so low (as to do something)

(formal) to drop your moral standards far enough to do something bad or unpleasant卑鄙（或堕落）到…地步
- She was unwilling to believe anyone would stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman's finger.她无法相信真有人会龌龊到这种地步，竟然从一个死去的女人手指上偷戒指。

stoop

noun

/stuːp/

[singular] if somebody has a stoop, their shoulders are always bent forward曲背；驼背
[countable] (North American English) a raised area outside the door of a house with steps leading up to it门廊
- the front stoop前门廊
- We sat talking on the stoop until midnight.我们坐在门廊上一直聊到半夜。
Topics Houses and homesc2

词源noun sense 1 Old English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep. The noun sense dates from the late 16th cent. noun sense 2 mid 18th cent.: from Dutch stoep, of the same meaning.