no obj.
1
- bend 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 obj. the man stoops his head.那个男子低着头。
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
as adj. stooping a thin, stooping figure.一个驼背的单薄身影。
1.2
- (of a bird of prey) swoop down on a quarry（猛禽）下扑, 猛扑。
2
- lower 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。
2.1
- with infinitive archaic 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。
1
- in sing. a posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forwards弯腰, 曲背：
a tall, thin man with a stoop.
一个又高又瘦的驼背男子。
2
- the downward swoop of a bird of prey（猛禽的）下扑, 猛扑。
词源
Old English stūpian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to the adjective STEEP1. Both senses of the noun date from the late 16th cent.