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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   stoop

   • IPA[sto͞op]

   美式

   • v.
     bend one's head or body forward and downward；have the head and shoulders habitually bent forward
   • n.
     a posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forward；the downward swoop of a bird of prey.

   • verb: stoop, 3rd person present: stoops, gerund or present participle: stooping, past tense: stooped, past participle: stooped

   • noun: stoop, plural noun: stoops

2. • 釋義

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. bend one's head or body forward and downward he stooped down and reached toward the coin Linda stooped to pick up the bottles 同義詞 bend down, bend, lean over, lean down, kneel, ... 更多crouch down, squat down, hunker down, hunch down, informalscooch, lower, bend, incline, bow, duck
   • ▪ have the head and shoulders habitually bent forward he tends to stoop when he walks 同義詞 hunch one's shoulders, walk with a stoop, be round-shouldered
   • 2. lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible Craig wouldn't stoop to thieving she was unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal from a dead woman 同義詞 lower oneself, sink, descend, resort, be reduced, ... 更多go as far as, sink as low as
   • ▪ archaic condescend to do something the princes now and then stooped to pay a nominal homage
   • 3. (of a bird of prey) swoop down on a quarry we witnessed an eagle stooping on its prey

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a posture in which the head and shoulders are habitually bent forward a tall, thin man with a stoop
   • 2. the downward swoop of a bird of prey.