stoop

• vi. 身をかがめる；屈する；倒れる
• n. 身をかがめる；屈服する
• vt.恥をかかせる；品位を落とす；身をかがめる
• n. （Stoop）人の名前；（仏、蘭、ポルトガル語）Stoop

古英語のstupian「曲げる」、stoop「身をかがめる」から、原ゲルマン語*stup「身をかがめる」、PIE*steup「押す」、steu「打つ」、steep「タイプ」と語源的には同じ。

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.

1. He was a tall，thin fellow with a slight stoop .

彼は背が高くて少し猫背だ。

2.They stood together on the stoop and rang the bell.

彼らは一緒に玄関ポーチに立ってチャイムを鳴らした。

3.They will stoop to every low-down trick.

彼らはどんな卑劣な手段でも使う。

4.I refuse to stoop to such bullying tactics.

このような覇道的な手段を使用するまでは、私は拒否します。

5.But Stoop was not going to let himself be just an apartment cat.

ただし Stoop は飼い猫になりたくない。

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