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verb stuːpstup [no object]1Bend one's head or body forwards and downwards. 低头；俯身，弯腰 he stooped down and reached towards the coin 他弯下腰去捡硬币。 Linda stooped to pick up the bottles 琳达俯身去捡瓶子。 with object the man stoops his head 那个男子低着头。 Example sentencesExamples - Evelyn stooped down and picked the six-year-old girl up.
- Finn stooped down next to the bright, crystal clear water and started scooping handfuls of water into his mouth.
- She would have stooped to retrieve her knives had he not waved his own at her threateningly.
- Adam stooped down and picked up the object, careful shutting the lid and placing it back on her nightstand.
- My balance regained, I stooped down to pick up the overgrown puppy that immediately began licking my face once it was within reach.
- I was pruning the flowerbeds, mowing the grass, that sort of thing, and had just stooped down to pick up a piece of litter when a red rubber ball landed about twenty centimetres from me.
- A wave of guilt washed over me and I stooped down to pick him up.
- He stooped down to the window and looked right at me, grinning.
- He stoops to recover the horseshoe from where it lies.
- After looking around for a few seconds, he stooped down to pick up a snail shell he found on the sidewalk.
- Hands trembling, he stooped down to pick them off the road and steadied himself with one hand on the truck.
- Borrowing a pen from another tourist, she stooped down to the boy's level.
- Jorge stooped down, picked it up and dusted it off.
- Then, she pointed at the towering hill and at herself, then stooped down and wrote in the sand with her finger.
- The gentleman stooped down and plucked one of the blooms from its bed.
- A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- I stooped down to pick up a book and then handed it to her.
- David grinned and stooped down beside his daughter.
- He stooped down and carefully peered around the doorway, both ways.
- He turned his back on me, went over to the generator, stooped and retrieved something.
- He stooped down to touch the road, then straightened up, worried.
- Instinctively Loretta stooped down to pick it up.
- He then stooped down next to me and ran a hand over my hair.
- I spun towards the voice, stooping to grab my knife.
- Mal shrugged as he stooped down to look into the car.
Synonyms bend down, bend, lean over, lean down, kneel, crouch down, squat down, hunker down, hunch down North American informal scooch lower, bend, incline, bow, duck - 1.1 Have the head and shoulders habitually bent forwards.
驼背，弯腰曲背 he tends to stoop when he walks 他走路时总爱弯着腰。 Example sentencesExamples - His injuries healed but as he grew bigger the scar tissue contracted and he began to stoop like an old man.
- During the Brixton riots inquiry in 1981 his tall, stooping figure appeared regularly on television.
- Though he stoops over as if gravity is dragging down his meaty shoulders, Rod standing tall is six feet six inches and 270 pounds.
Synonyms hunch one's shoulders, walk with a stoop, be round-shouldered
2Lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible. 堕落 Craig wouldn't stoop to thieving 克雷格不会堕落到偷窃的地步。 she was unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal from a dead woman 她不愿意相信有人会堕落到从一个死去的女人那里偷东西。 Example sentencesExamples - When you see ideological opponents stoop to a barrage of personal insults, do you think that they've scored a political point?
- I think it's absolutely despicable that anyone could stoop so low as to steal something from a children's ward.
- Would Edward stoop so low as to kill them all?
- If some moron can stoop so low as to steal a wheelchair from an 82-year-old lady, what are we coming to?
- Try to be communicative with other people in your class but if that doesn't work do not stoop to their level.
- I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
- If I, and all my friends, had given her the love and encouragement she so obviously needed, perhaps she wouldn't have felt the need to stoop to these depths to try and gain our attention.
- I'm sure nobody around here would stoop so low as to put their muck in our dustbin, but word gets around about these things and you may not realise the lengths some unscrupulous types will go to.
- Ask yourself - when you hear your political adversaries stoop to empty insults like this, do you feel that they're helping their cause or hurting it?
- It is astonishing the columnist could stoop so low.
- Could anyone in tinsel town stoop so low?
- Why am I not surprised that they would stoop to cheating?
- It's really sad for them that they have to stoop to these awful things and it just shows what kinds of people we are dealing with.
- I wouldn't stoop low enough to go directly to his house to see him.
- When we raised our concerns to the senators lining up to oppose Ashcroft, they of course protested they would never stoop to such bigotry.
- We, the virtuous local media, would never stoop so low!
- Nor would they stoop to depriving the downtrodden fans of a struggling club of an adored star just by offering him some filthy money and the chance of European football.
- I feel relieved in a sense because people have been killed or injured for less but I feel disgusted that people can stoop to that level.
- The fact that he is willing to stoop to this sort of outright revisionism in order to make his point demonstrates the abject lack of substance to his arguments.
- However, we cannot continue to stoop to their level, because it removes our right to righteous indignation at their atrocities.
Synonyms lower oneself, sink, descend, resort be reduced, go as far as, sink as low as - 2.1archaic with infinitive Condescend to do something.
〈古〉屈尊，屈从 the princes now and then stooped to pay a nominal homage 王子们偶尔会屈尊表示象征性的敬意。 Example sentencesExamples - He would not stoop to ask for any man's compliments, praises, flatteries; and he would be far above exacting them.
- He does not stoop to deny the charge against the president, instead he points out the signifier of the true moralist: the man who tears up the constitution when politically expedient.
3(of a bird of prey) swoop down on a quarry. （猛禽）下扑，猛扑 we witnessed an eagle stooping on its prey Example sentencesExamples - I found this out recently when I suddenly got the urge to go, having seen a falcon stoop at a distance as I was driving.
- Occasionally, a kite stoops and grabs a dragonfly, one of its favorite meals.
- Splendid aerial displays are described, the birds climbing several hundred feet before stooping at tremendous speed at each other until almost at ground-level when the performance is repeated.
noun stuːpstup 1in singular A posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forwards. 驼背，弯腰曲背 a tall, thin man with a stoop 一个又高又瘦的驼背男子。 Example sentencesExamples - His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame.
- He walked with a stoop and a rolling gait, the once upright take-on-the-world stance of the magnificent athlete now reduced to a shambling stagger.
- Now 71, he is tanned and tall, with a slight stoop.
- He was walking with a pronounced stoop, gleefully rubbing his hands together and grinning like a maniac.
- Tuck was angular and lean, with a slight stoop, as he is today.
- He noticed a beginning, almost imperceptible touch of red around her eyes, a stoop to her shoulders that had not been there before.
- The elderly man is of medium height and build, wearing glasses and walking with a slight stoop.
Synonyms hunch, droop/sag of the shoulders round-shoulderedness technical curvature of the spine, kyphosis 2The downward swoop of a bird of prey. （猛禽的）下扑，猛扑 Example sentencesExamples - There was a horrible sensation of plunging into the abyss, falling, falling as swiftly as a falcon in stoop.
- They descended on the village like a falcon in stoop.
- We were watching Annie, another centre falconer, luring a young lanner through a pattern of stoops and dives after a pair of meat-garnished, dried wings swung on a long cord.
OriginOld English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep1. Both senses of the noun date from the late 16th century. Rhymesbloop, cock-a-hoop, coop, croup, droop, drupe, dupe, goop, group, Guadeloupe, hoop, loop, poop, recoup, roup, scoop, sloop, snoop, soup, stoep, stoup, stupe, swoop, troop, troupe, whoop noun stuːpstup North American A porch with steps in front of a house or other building. 〈北美〉（有台阶的）门廊，走廊 Example sentencesExamples - Lately, I have noticed a man sitting on the stoop of an apartment building near mine.
- It ended with a long kiss on my stoop and his promise to call the next day.
- I was legitimately surprised when I saw Tucker, along with Emma and Hayden standing on the front stoop of my father's house.
- He was there standing on the front stoop, hands stuck in his pockets.
- What I remember most is sitting on the back stoop of the house, crying.
- Concrete is popular for sidewalks, parking pads, patios, dumpster pads, front stoops, recreational areas, driveways, curbs, gutters and much more.
- The ferryman was watching from the stoop of a nearby clapboard house as we rolled up.
- They opened the door, and slowly stepped out onto the stoop, looking out at the land in front of them.
- When I bought my house, there were immense, ball-shaped evergreens on either side of the front stoop.
- The Sunday New York Times, wrapped in blue plastic, already was on the front stoop, and the smell of coffee was floating up from the kitchen.
- Around here, neighbors yelled to each other from their front stoops.
- We've been sitting on the front stoop of an unlit house, blinking into the darkness, waiting, or so we thought.
- I even let James kiss me on the stoop and it feels okay.
- She stepped up onto the stoop and fumbled around the doorway for the keypad.
- Emma stormed out of the manor and collapsed on the front stoop in tears.
- The boy stands outside on the stoop of his house finishing the rest of his toast.
- Momentarily, I will get up, take a few steps down the hallway, and peek out onto our front stoop.
- About ten minutes later, we were sitting on the stoop of his building, putting on our roller blades.
- She sets her buckets on the front stoop and pauses before opening the door.
- Jackson was sitting on the stoop early in the morning, when the birds were just beginning to call and the sky was grey.
OriginMid 18th century: from Dutch stoep (see stoep). verbsto͞opstup [no object]1Bend one's head or body forward and downward. 低头；俯身，弯腰 he stooped down and reached toward the coin 他弯下腰去捡硬币。 Linda stooped to pick up the bottles 琳达俯身去捡瓶子。 with object the man stoops his head 那个男子低着头。 Example sentencesExamples - I spun towards the voice, stooping to grab my knife.
- Mal shrugged as he stooped down to look into the car.
- He turned his back on me, went over to the generator, stooped and retrieved something.
- He then stooped down next to me and ran a hand over my hair.
- I stooped down to pick up a book and then handed it to her.
- She would have stooped to retrieve her knives had he not waved his own at her threateningly.
- Evelyn stooped down and picked the six-year-old girl up.
- Jorge stooped down, picked it up and dusted it off.
- Then, she pointed at the towering hill and at herself, then stooped down and wrote in the sand with her finger.
- He stooped down to the window and looked right at me, grinning.
- Instinctively Loretta stooped down to pick it up.
- Adam stooped down and picked up the object, careful shutting the lid and placing it back on her nightstand.
- He stoops to recover the horseshoe from where it lies.
- He stooped down and carefully peered around the doorway, both ways.
- After looking around for a few seconds, he stooped down to pick up a snail shell he found on the sidewalk.
- Borrowing a pen from another tourist, she stooped down to the boy's level.
- Hands trembling, he stooped down to pick them off the road and steadied himself with one hand on the truck.
- He stooped down to touch the road, then straightened up, worried.
- The gentleman stooped down and plucked one of the blooms from its bed.
- I was pruning the flowerbeds, mowing the grass, that sort of thing, and had just stooped down to pick up a piece of litter when a red rubber ball landed about twenty centimetres from me.
- A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- A wave of guilt washed over me and I stooped down to pick him up.
- David grinned and stooped down beside his daughter.
- Finn stooped down next to the bright, crystal clear water and started scooping handfuls of water into his mouth.
- My balance regained, I stooped down to pick up the overgrown puppy that immediately began licking my face once it was within reach.
Synonyms bend down, bend, lean over, lean down, kneel, crouch down, squat down, hunker down, hunch down lower, bend, incline, bow, duck - 1.1 Have the head and shoulders habitually bent forward.
驼背，弯腰曲背 he tends to stoop when he walks 他走路时总爱弯着腰。 Example sentencesExamples - His injuries healed but as he grew bigger the scar tissue contracted and he began to stoop like an old man.
- Though he stoops over as if gravity is dragging down his meaty shoulders, Rod standing tall is six feet six inches and 270 pounds.
- During the Brixton riots inquiry in 1981 his tall, stooping figure appeared regularly on television.
Synonyms hunch one's shoulders, walk with a stoop, be round-shouldered
2Lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible. 堕落 Craig wouldn't stoop to thieving 克雷格不会堕落到偷窃的地步。 she was unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal from a dead woman 她不愿意相信有人会堕落到从一个死去的女人那里偷东西。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm sure nobody around here would stoop so low as to put their muck in our dustbin, but word gets around about these things and you may not realise the lengths some unscrupulous types will go to.
- When you see ideological opponents stoop to a barrage of personal insults, do you think that they've scored a political point?
- Ask yourself - when you hear your political adversaries stoop to empty insults like this, do you feel that they're helping their cause or hurting it?
- Why am I not surprised that they would stoop to cheating?
- Try to be communicative with other people in your class but if that doesn't work do not stoop to their level.
- I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery.
- However, we cannot continue to stoop to their level, because it removes our right to righteous indignation at their atrocities.
- I think it's absolutely despicable that anyone could stoop so low as to steal something from a children's ward.
- It is astonishing the columnist could stoop so low.
- Nor would they stoop to depriving the downtrodden fans of a struggling club of an adored star just by offering him some filthy money and the chance of European football.
- I feel relieved in a sense because people have been killed or injured for less but I feel disgusted that people can stoop to that level.
- We, the virtuous local media, would never stoop so low!
- Could anyone in tinsel town stoop so low?
- I wouldn't stoop low enough to go directly to his house to see him.
- Would Edward stoop so low as to kill them all?
- If some moron can stoop so low as to steal a wheelchair from an 82-year-old lady, what are we coming to?
- When we raised our concerns to the senators lining up to oppose Ashcroft, they of course protested they would never stoop to such bigotry.
- It's really sad for them that they have to stoop to these awful things and it just shows what kinds of people we are dealing with.
- If I, and all my friends, had given her the love and encouragement she so obviously needed, perhaps she wouldn't have felt the need to stoop to these depths to try and gain our attention.
- The fact that he is willing to stoop to this sort of outright revisionism in order to make his point demonstrates the abject lack of substance to his arguments.
Synonyms lower oneself, sink, descend, resort - 2.1archaic with infinitive Condescend to do something.
〈古〉屈尊，屈从 Example sentencesExamples - He would not stoop to ask for any man's compliments, praises, flatteries; and he would be far above exacting them.
- He does not stoop to deny the charge against the president, instead he points out the signifier of the true moralist: the man who tears up the constitution when politically expedient.
3(of a bird of prey) swoop down on a quarry. （猛禽）下扑，猛扑 Example sentencesExamples - I found this out recently when I suddenly got the urge to go, having seen a falcon stoop at a distance as I was driving.
- Occasionally, a kite stoops and grabs a dragonfly, one of its favorite meals.
- Splendid aerial displays are described, the birds climbing several hundred feet before stooping at tremendous speed at each other until almost at ground-level when the performance is repeated.
nounsto͞opstup 1in singular A posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forward. 驼背，弯腰曲背 a tall, thin man with a stoop 一个又高又瘦的驼背男子。 Example sentencesExamples - The elderly man is of medium height and build, wearing glasses and walking with a slight stoop.
- His sprightly frame is totally erect with not a hint of a stoop and his quick stride and purposeful gait would put men half his age to shame.
- He noticed a beginning, almost imperceptible touch of red around her eyes, a stoop to her shoulders that had not been there before.
- He was walking with a pronounced stoop, gleefully rubbing his hands together and grinning like a maniac.
- He walked with a stoop and a rolling gait, the once upright take-on-the-world stance of the magnificent athlete now reduced to a shambling stagger.
- Now 71, he is tanned and tall, with a slight stoop.
- Tuck was angular and lean, with a slight stoop, as he is today.
Synonyms hunch, droop of the shoulders, sag of the shoulders 2The downward swoop of a bird of prey. （猛禽的）下扑，猛扑 Example sentencesExamples - They descended on the village like a falcon in stoop.
- We were watching Annie, another centre falconer, luring a young lanner through a pattern of stoops and dives after a pair of meat-garnished, dried wings swung on a long cord.
- There was a horrible sensation of plunging into the abyss, falling, falling as swiftly as a falcon in stoop.
OriginOld English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective steep. Both senses of the noun date from the late 16th century. nounstupsto͞op North American A porch with steps in front of a house or other building. 〈北美〉（有台阶的）门廊，走廊 Example sentencesExamples - It ended with a long kiss on my stoop and his promise to call the next day.
- They opened the door, and slowly stepped out onto the stoop, looking out at the land in front of them.
- He was there standing on the front stoop, hands stuck in his pockets.
- She sets her buckets on the front stoop and pauses before opening the door.
- Lately, I have noticed a man sitting on the stoop of an apartment building near mine.
- What I remember most is sitting on the back stoop of the house, crying.
- When I bought my house, there were immense, ball-shaped evergreens on either side of the front stoop.
- Around here, neighbors yelled to each other from their front stoops.
- Momentarily, I will get up, take a few steps down the hallway, and peek out onto our front stoop.
- We've been sitting on the front stoop of an unlit house, blinking into the darkness, waiting, or so we thought.
- The boy stands outside on the stoop of his house finishing the rest of his toast.
- The Sunday New York Times, wrapped in blue plastic, already was on the front stoop, and the smell of coffee was floating up from the kitchen.
- The ferryman was watching from the stoop of a nearby clapboard house as we rolled up.
- About ten minutes later, we were sitting on the stoop of his building, putting on our roller blades.
- I was legitimately surprised when I saw Tucker, along with Emma and Hayden standing on the front stoop of my father's house.
- Concrete is popular for sidewalks, parking pads, patios, dumpster pads, front stoops, recreational areas, driveways, curbs, gutters and much more.
- Jackson was sitting on the stoop early in the morning, when the birds were just beginning to call and the sky was grey.
- She stepped up onto the stoop and fumbled around the doorway for the keypad.
- Emma stormed out of the manor and collapsed on the front stoop in tears.
- I even let James kiss me on the stoop and it feels okay.
OriginMid 18th century: from Dutch stoep (see stoep). |