Stoop
[stuːp] or [stʊp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward.
(noun.) small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.
(verb.) carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; 'The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane'.
(verb.) sag, bend, bend over or down; 'the rocks stooped down over the hiking path'.
(verb.) descend swiftly, as if on prey; 'The eagle stooped on the mice in the field'.
錄入:欧文--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
(n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
(n.) A post fixed in the earth.
(v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
(v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
(v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
(v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
(v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
(v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
(v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
(v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
(v. t.) To degrade.
(n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
(n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
(n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
埃米尔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Couch, bend forward, bend down, lean forward.[2]. Cower, yield, submit, succumb, surrender, knuckle, give in.[3]. Condescend, deign, vouchsafe.[4]. Swoop, descend, come down, bear down.[5]. Sink, fall.
v. a. Lower, abase, bow, bend down, bend forward.
n. [1]. Condescension.[2]. Swoop, descent.[3]. Flagon, bowl.[4]. [U. S.] Door-steps, porch.
乔迪校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:bend, condescend, yield,[See ACCUMULATION]
希尔达整理
解釋/意思:
n. (Shak.) a vessel of liquor a flagon: liquor for drinking: a basin for holy water.
n. a prop support a patron.
n. an open platform before the entrance of a house.
v.i. to bend the body: to lean forward: to submit: to descend from rank or dignity: to condescend: to swoop down on the wing as a bird of prey.—v.t. to cause to incline downward.—n. the act of stooping: inclination forward: descent: condescension: a swoop.—adj. Stooped having a stoop bent.—n. Stoop′er one who stoops.—p.adj. Stoop′ing.—adv. Stoop′ingly.
編輯:西尔维亚
例句/造句/用法:
- And when I came to stoop down and look up at his face, I saw that he was crying. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Stoop over his shoulder fearlessly, and read as he scribbles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I told him I did, and it was because I did and meant to do so to the last, that I would not stoop to propitiate any of them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- How noble it was of him to marry me--to give up everything and stoop down to me! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In politics, at least, we stoop to conquer. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But on the material side, Mr. Archer, if one may stoop to consider such things; do you know what she is giving up? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I hate the mechanical labour; I hate to stoop and sit still. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He stooped a little, and with his tattered blue cap pointed under the carriage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Aristotle stooped much, and made use of a staff. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Two fair arms closed tenderly round his neck as he stooped down. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Sir James let his whip fall and stooped to pick it up. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- This very evening he had again stooped, gazed, and decreed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He stooped a little in walking. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He stooped, and she whispered in his ear. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I saw her stooping over her, and putting money in her bosom. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Well, so she does; it can't be denied; and, certainly, if there is one thing more than another that makes a girl look ugly it is stooping. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Stooping, he crawled into the shelter beside the wounded officer, and placed a cool hand upon his forehead. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Again the moon shone with faint luminosity on his white wet figure, on the stooping back and the rounded loins. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Upon my word, Sir,' said the astonished Mrs. Pott, stooping to pick up the paper. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In the corner, stooping over a desk, there sat what appeared to be a little girl. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- You were going to say that Isabel stoops--I know you were--you men are such observers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The women and children have resumed their labour; the reaper once more stoops to his work; the cart-horses have moved on; and all are again in motion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The other woman, who was bending over it when they came in, stoops down again and kisses it as it lies asleep. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Krook takes it, goes to the fire, stoops over the red embers, and tries to get a light. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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