stoop

vi. 弯腰；屈服；堕落

n. 弯腰，屈背；屈服

vt. 辱没，堕落；俯曲

n. (Stoop)人名；(法、荷、葡)斯托普

中文词源

stoop 俯身，弯腰，曲背，驼背

来自古英语 stupian,弯腰，俯身，来自 Proto-Germanic*stup,弯腰，来自 PIE*steup,扩大形式自 PIE*steu,推，击，打，词源同 steep,type.引申诸相关词义。

stoop: stoop: see steep
stoop (v.): "bend forward," Old English stupian "to bow, bend," from Proto-Germanic *stup- (cognates: Middle Dutch stupen "to bow, bend," Norwegian stupa "fall, drop"), from PIE *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see steep (adj.)). Figurative sense of "condescend," especially expressing a lowering of the moral self, is from 1570s. Sense of "swoop" is first recorded 1570s in falconry. Related: Stooped; stooping. The noun meaning "an act of stooping" is from c. 1300. Stoop-shouldered attested from 1773.
stoop (n.): "raised open platform at the entrance of a house," 1755, American and Canadian, from Dutch stoep "flight of steps, doorstep, threshold," from Middle Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *stap- "step" (see step (v.)).
This, unlike most of the words received [in American English] from the Dutch, has extended, in consequence of the uniform style of building that prevails throughout the country, beyond the bounds of New York State, as far as the backwoods of Canada. [Bartlett]
Also in South African English as stoep.

stoop............似兔扑（扑倒在地）.....像兔子一样扑到在地......屈身；弯腰分析：stop——停止；o——像蛋。记忆：他停下来，弯腰捡起了一只蛋。

5. 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.