stoop

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++stoop1 /stuːp/ verb [intransitive]  1  (also stoop down)BEND to bend your body forward and down 俯身，弯腰 We had to stoop to pass through the low entrance. 我们得弯腰通过那低矮的入口。 Dave stooped down to tie his shoes. 戴夫俯身系鞋带。2. STANDto stand with your back and shoulders bent forwards 弓背站立，弯腰曲背站立3 stoop to something phrasal verb DOto do something bad or morally wrong, which you do not normally do 堕落[卑鄙]到去做…stoop to doing something I didn’t expect you to stoop to lying. 我没料到你竟然卑劣到会撒谎。stoop to somebody’s/that level Don’t stoop to her level. 别把自己降低到她的档次。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

stoop• She stooped and hugged the little dog.• There were two letters by the door. He stooped and picked them up.• He stooped and, with a grunt, hoisted the man on to his vacant shoulder.• Archer stooped over and threw a log upon the embers.• Kirov stooped over his crumpled form, retrieving the photograph from between his fingers and tucking it safely into his inside pocket.• She stooped, setting the tray down, and Claudine put a hand around her narrow waist, detaining her.• They should be made to stoop to enter.

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stoop2 noun  1  [singular]MH if you have a stoop, your shoulders are bent forward 曲背 Mr Hamilton was an odd, quiet man who walked with a stoop. 汉密尔顿先生是个怪人，不爱说话，走路时弓着背。2. [countable] American EnglishTBB a raised area at the door of a house, usually big enough to sit on 门阶

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stoop• A little kid in a Catholic school uniform still hops up and down the steps of a stoop on one foot.• He was a tall, shy, bony man with a stoop, who cracked his fingers when he was worried.• He was a tall thin man with a stoop, who was rarely seen without a pipe clenched between his teeth.• He sounded young enough, but he walked with a deepening stoop at the age of thirty-two.• They sat, she on the stoop and he in his chair, surveying the completed project.• I was still sitting on the stoop when Janir came shuffling into the parlor.Origin stoop1 Old English stupian

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stoop¹ /stuːp/ verb [intransitive]1. (also stoop down) to bend your body forward and down:
    We had to stoop to pass through the low entrance.
    Dave stooped down to tie his shoes.
2. to stand with your back and shoulders bent forwards
     
stoop to something phrasal verb
  to do something bad or morally wrong, which you do not normally do
    stoop to doing something
    I didn’t expect you to stoop to lying.
    stoop to sb’s/that level
    Don’t stoop to her level.

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stoop² noun
1. [singular] if you have a stoop, your shoulders are bent forward:
    Mr Hamilton was an odd, quiet man who walked with a stoop.
2. [countable] American English a raised area at the door of a house, usually big enough to sit on