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stoop

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they stoop
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he / she / it stoops
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past simple stooped
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past participle stooped
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-ing form stooping
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Idioms Phrasal Verbs
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  1. [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。🔊🔊
  2. [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
    3. Word Originverb 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
  1. 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.政府已经屈服于历史最低点。
    • Reality TV has sunk to new lows.真人秀电视已跌至新低。
stoop so low (as to do something)
  1. (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
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  1. [singular] if somebody has a stoop, their shoulders are always bent forward 曲背；驼背
  2. [countable] (North American English) a raised area outside the door of a house with steps leading up to it门廊
    • the front stoop前弯
    • We sat talking on the stoop until midnight.我们一直在弯腰坐直到午夜。
    Topics Houses and homesc2
    3. Word Originnoun 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.