| 单词 | stoop |
| 释义 | stoop I. intransitive verb 1. a. < the figures stooped and rose with the lifting whips — Mary Austin > < he stooped cowering to the ground — Pearl Buck > < he stooped over his labor — Charles Dickens > — often used with down < stooped down to take a necklace … from the floor — Francis Yeats-Brown > b. < stooped through the door of the camp — Lyndall Hadow > < stooped along the shore under the headwall of the beach — G.W.Brace > < stood before her, a tall, very thin man, stooping a little — Michael Arlen > c. Britain < hounds … unlikely to stoop successfully for so weak a scent — E.G.W.W.Harrison > 2. < stooping before the conqueror > 3. a. < couldn't believe that God ever stooped to such trivial engagements — L.C.Douglas > < either the audience didn't measure up to his brand of humor, or he wouldn't stoop to theirs — H.J.Higdon > < that masculine dignity which forbids our stooping to conquer … the common speech of a foreign people — G.G.Coulton > b. < did not stoop habitually to falsehood and subterfuge to gain her end — Ellen Glasgow > < will stoop to robbing a bombed store — J.Coughlan > < he stooped to fraud — Hilaire Belloc > 4. a. archaic < ready now to stoop, with wearied wings and willing feet — John Milton > b. < the big eagles were stooping closer — David Walker > < when a falcon stoops for the kill he is traveling more than two miles a minute — H.M.Robinson > transitive verb 1. a. b. < stooping his talents to an unworthy cause > 2. obsolete 3. a. < he stooped his head to hers — Maurice Hewlett > < his shoulders were stooped as if he were bearing a great bundle — Stephen Crane > < the bullocks … stooped their heads to the grass — Adrian Bell > b. dialect England II. 1. a. b. < walking bent for 50 yards before he can get the stoop out of his back — F.B.Gipson > < walked with a stoop as if laden with invisible burdens — Maurice Samuel > 2. < the stoop of a hawk — V.C.Heilner > < hover … high above their quarry to descend in a terrific, vertical stoop on the unsuspecting larger bird — Wyo. Wild Life > 3. III. 1. dialect Britain 2. Scotland IV. variant of stoup V. < mounted a folding stepladder chair on the front stoop and addressed them — Sinclair Lewis > Synonyms: see balcony |
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