stoop, condescend, deign
这组词都可表示“屈尊”。它们的区别在于:stoop不仅指降低人格或尊严去干与身份不相称的事情,而且暗示道德的堕落,有可耻的意味; condescend指地位、身份较高或权力较大的人屈尊去同地位较低的人交往,也可指对自视不如自己的人摆出屈尊俯就或恩赐的态度; deign则指性格傲慢、目中无人的人认为降低自己的身份去做某事,常同否定词连用,暗示不屑做某事。
stoop，bend
这两动词都可表示“弯腰，弯曲”之意。
stoop通常用于人，指屈膝降低身体高度或低头弯腰。常引申作屈从或不顾尊严。
bend指人指物皆可，含义广，指任何弯曲的动作。可引申作屈从解。
Tall, athletically built , but with a slight, shy stoop to his shoulders.
高个子, 运动员身材, 但有点轻微的水蛇腰.
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Tis less discredit to abridge petty charges, than to stoop to petty gettings.
节省一丝一毫金钱, 不会比为小小的收入而屈尊丢脸.
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They stood together on the stoop and rang the bell.
他们一起站在门廊上按响了门铃。
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He is too lofty to stoop to vulgar intrigue.
他的清高使他还不至于屈就卑俗的勾当.
辞典例句
I refuse to stoop to such bullying tactics.
我拒绝下作到使用这种霸道手段.
《简明英汉词典》
It pains me to stoop down.
痛得我蹲下来.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
She stooped down to pick up the child.
她俯身抱起孩子。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
He's too fat to stoop down.
他太胖了,连腰都弯不下.
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But Stoop was not going to let himself be just an apartment cat.
但Stoop并不想使自己成为一只家猫.
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A kid in his late teens sat on the stoop eating candy.
一个十多岁的男孩坐在门阶上吃糖.
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He stooped to pick up the carrier bag of groceries...
他俯下身去提装着食品杂货的购物袋。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
As steady stream of cars and traffic passed by, the dealers conducted business on the stoop.
当川流不息的车辆和行人经过时, 毒品贩子就在门廊上做生意.
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She has always walked with a stoop.
她总是弯腰走路.
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She was taller than he was and stooped slightly.
她比他高，而且略微有些驼背。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
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。
牛津词典
I didn't think he'd stoop to cheating.
我觉得他总不至于说谎吧。
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The old woman walked with a stoop.
老太太伛偻而行.
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He had not, until recently, stooped to personal abuse...
他以前从未像最近这样卑鄙到进行人身攻击。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
The doorway was so low that he had to stoop.
门廊很矮，他低下头才过去。
牛津词典
We had to stoop to pass through the low entrance.
我们得弯腰通过那低矮的入口。
朗文当代高级英语词典 第6版
Two men in shirt sleeves stooped over the car...
两名穿衬衣的男子趴在那辆汽车上。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
They've stooped to using any and every weapon at their disposal...
他们已经无耻到把能用的武器都用上了。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He would stoop to any device to win a point.
为了能赢上一分,他会不择手段.
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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。
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Dave stooped down to tie his shoes.
戴夫俯身系鞋带。
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Don't stoop to argue with him.
别降低身份去跟他争吵.
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You surely don't think I'd stoop to that!
你不会认为我会下作到那种地步吧！
牛津词典
He tends to stoop because he's so tall.
他个子太高了，所以时常弓着背。
牛津词典
I had to stoop to the child's height to hear what he was saying.
我得把腰弯到孩子的高度来听他说话.
辞典例句
He would stoop to anything to further his career.
为了进一步向上爬,他什么事都干得出来.
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