doorstep
['dɔ:step]
n.门阶
例句与用法:
News reporters camped upon his doorstep day and night.
一些新闻记者日夜在他门口纠缠不走。
A frightening brew of poisonous waste is said to be accumulating in Britain's biggest chemical dump ... The local authority ... is rightly worried about the ... tip on its doorstep.
据说惊人的大量有毒物质正堆在英国最大的化学物品废品站里 ... 当地政府 ... 对 ... 堆在它门口的垃圾理所当然地感到忧虑。
Put your empties on the doorstep for the milkman.
把空奶瓶放到门阶上,等送奶人来取。
n.
【建】门阶[C]
短语词组:
at/on one's doorstep
1. 在某人近旁
There's a swimming pool right at his doorstep.
他家门口就有个游泳池。
doorstep
名词复数:doorsteps
doorstep['dɔ:step]n.1.■【建筑业】门阶2.■[俚语]厚面包片,厚三明治vt.1.■[英国英语]2.■(尤指记者等)在门外守候采访,(在门口)拦截(被采访对象),登门采访,穷追不舍(新闻人物、权势人物):He complained about being constantly doorstepped by the press.他埋怨经常被上门的记者纠缠不休。3.■挨家挨户上门拉…选票(或推销、调查等)vi.1.■[英国英语]2.■(为进行调查、推销或政治游说)挨户上门,挨家挨户兜售(或调查、募捐、拉选票、政治游说等)3.■守候在门口,在门口等候,(像)站在门前台阶上等候adj.1.■[英国英语]挨家挨户兜售(或调查、募捐、拉选票等)的;登门募捐的,挨户推销的;上门拉选票的at (或on) one's (或someone's) doorstep在…门口,在…近旁,在…跟前,靠近在…的职责(或能力、利益)范围内camp on (或upon) someone's doorstep经常在某人门口(或跟前)纠缠变形vt.doorsteppeddoorstepping
doorstepdoorstep[ˈdɔ:step]n.1.■门阶
noun
- a step leading up to the outer door of a house
门阶
■(Brit. informal)a thick piece of something
(英, 非正式)厚块
[as modifier]doorstep sandwiches.
厚块的三明治。
- [with obj.](of a journalist) wait uninvited outside the home of (someone) in order to obtain an interview or photograph
(记者未受邀而)据守(屋外以期进行采访或拍照)
he was being doorstepped by the tabloids.
那些小报记者一直在他家门外蹲守。 - [no obj.]go from door to door selling or canvassing
逐门逐户推销(或游说)
he doorsteps for his church at weekends.
他在周末到各家为教会宣讲。
on one's (或 the) doorstep
- situated very close by
在…门口;离…很近
the airport is on my doorstep so flying is easy.
机场就在我家门口,乘飞机很方便。
doorstep
名词 doorstep:
the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway
doorstep
■Towards midnight Huo Qi set the little girl down on a doorstep while he stepped round the corner to urinate.
"半夜中,霍启因要小解,便将英莲放在一家门槛上坐着."
■So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagons house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod.
5因此,大衮的祭司和一切进亚实突,大衮庙的人都不踏大衮庙的门槛,直到今日。
■"The European Union cannot be indifferent to this war, these massacres on our doorstep," said French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
“欧洲联盟不能漠不关心,这场战争中,这些大屠杀对我们家门口,说: ”法国外长贝尔纳库什内尔。
■A woman in shabby black stood on the doorstep talking to Jude, who held the door in his hand.
一个穿着破旧黑衫裙的女人站在门口台阶上,正跟裘德说话,裘德一只手把着门。
■News reporters camped upon his doorstep day and night.
一些新闻记者日夜在他门口纠缠不走。
■An Ohio sheriff says a baby found on a doorstep does not belong to a missing pregnant woman.
一名俄亥俄州的治安官说在一个门阶上所发现的一名婴儿不属于一位失踪的妇女。
■One afternoon, opening the window to sweep the dust on the sill, he noticed her standing on her doorstep, watching the street.
一天下午,当他打开窗户清扫窗台的灰尘时,他看到她站在自家屋子的门阶上,眼睛注视着街道。
■A couple of teenagers were kissing and cuddling on the doorstep.
一对年轻人在门阶上亲吻拥抱。
■Don't leave him standing on the doorstep, ask him in!
不要让他站在门口的阶梯上, 请他进来。
■Don't leave him standing on the doorstep,ask him in!
不要让他站在门口的阶梯上,请他进来。
■But the blame for Britain's poor showing does not lie wholly at the doorstep of Britons, Bamfield said, but also with organized foreign gangs hitting on cities such as London.
不过英国的差劲表现也不能全怪英国人,班菲尔德说,外国犯罪团伙对伦敦这样的城市的袭击也难辞其咎。
■The two men were having a real ding-dong on the doorstep.
两个男人在门前大吵起来。
■Two days later, a box arrived on Liza's doorstep.
两天后,一个盒子就递到了莉莎的门口。
■China has invested heavily in central Asian oil and gas fields to secure a source of energy on its doorstep and is building roads inthe remote former Soviet region.
中国大量投资中亚地区的石油和天然气田,以获得家门口的一个能源来源。同时,中国正在偏远的前苏联地区修建公路。
■China's thirst for oil has brought it to the doorstep of the United States.
中国对石油的渴求已经波及到美国的门口。
■Kaelling - Danish: a woman who stands on her doorstep yelling obscenities at her kids.
丹麦语:一个站在门口向她的孩子们骂脏话的女人。
■She said ,“Tonight ,take your best feather pillows and put single feather on the doorstep of each house in the town before the sun rises.
为了努力消除自己所做错事的影响,她拜访本村一位有智慧的年长妇女,介绍她的现状,寻求解决办法。
■During the investigation, a newborn baby girl was left on the doorstep of a home in a nearby county, raising questions about whether it belonged to Davis.
事件调查期间邻县有一户人家的门阶上发现了一个被遗弃的新生女婴,刑侦人员怀疑是戴维斯的孩子。
■It's actually easier to call a taxi company listed in the Yellow Pages of a telephone directory and ask them to send a cab to pick you at your doorstep.
事实上较为方便的做是按电话簿中黄页部分所列的出租车公司的号码打电话叫车,让他们派车上门来接你。
■It &rsquo actually easier to call a taxi company listed in the Yellow Pages of a telephone directory and ask them to send a cab to pick you up at your doorstep.
事实上较为方便的做法是按电话簿中黄页部分所列的出租车公司的号码打电话叫车,让他们派车上门来接你。
■In fact, advanced humanoid robots could arrive on your doorstep as early as 10 years from now.
事实上,类人机器人的应用10年前就已经出现了。
■So I went to the door, and, lo and behold, there he was on the doorstep.
于是我们向门走去,嗨,真想不到!他就在门口的台阶上。
■So with civil peachwood etched on their appearance on their own doorstep, to prevent harm evil.
于是民间就用桃木刻成他们的模样,放在自家门口,以避邪防害。
■Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual.
亨利叔叔坐在门口的阶沿上,烦恼地望着比平时更加灰色的天空。
■It's easy to be concerned with problems across the other side of the world and not see the poverty and unhappiness on your own doorstep.
人们往往会关注世界另一端的问题,而忽略了家门口的贫困和不幸。
■The police turned up on their doorstep at 3 o'clock this morning.
今天凌晨3点警察便出现在他们的住所门前。
■That inflation, dark energy and dark matter can all be laid at the doorstep of scalar fields suggests that they might be connected.
从暴胀、暗能量和暗物质都与纯量场往来密切的情况看来,它们彼此之间或许息息相关。
■Instead of dogging your doorstep, they disappear.You won't see them again until they get hungry.
他们不像往常那样在门前台阶缠着你,反而转眼间就不见了踪影,直到饿了才会再次出现在你面前。
■They separated at her doorstep with a discreet handshake.
他们在她的房间门口拘谨地握了握手,分手了。
■Sometimes they are here on business (that is, having fun at public expense), sometimes they are on their own, sometimes for no reason at all, but they would show up at your doorstep all the same.
他们有时是出差(亦即借公费旅游),有时是自费出来游玩,有时候是啥也不为,突然之间就在你家门口冒出来了
■They drafted an indigestible, 1,342-page bill in secret and then dumped it on Congress' doorstep.
他们私下里起草了一份无法消化的长达1342页的草案然后扔到了国会的桌上。
■For a few moments he loitered upon the doorstep, looking round at the silent square.
他在门前台阶上耽搁了一下,打量了一下寂静的广
■He stumbled over the doorstep.
他在门阶处绊了一脚。
■Instead, he sat on the doorstep sobbing. "They are leaving for Xiamen tomorrow, and I don't want to let them go," he cried.
他坐在门前的台阶上一边哭泣,一边说:“他们明天就要去厦门了,我不想让他们走。
■There's a swimming pool right.at his doorstep.
他家门口就有个游泳池
■There's a swimming pool right at his doorstep.
他家门口就有个游泳池。
■He crept into a corner and curled up on a doorstep and went to sleep.
他没精打采地走到一个街角,蜷缩在一家门前的台阶上睡着了。
■He saw a stranger standing at the doorstep.
他看到一个陌生人站在门口。
■On the doorstep he felt in his hip pocket for the latchkey
他站在门口的台阶上,摸了摸后裤兜,找大门钥匙。
■And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the winged ones on which it was resting, to the doorstep of the house.
以色列神的荣耀本在基路伯上、现今从那里升到殿的门槛.神将那身穿细麻衣、腰间带著墨盒子的人召来。
■Amsterdam's most popular bars, restaurants, clubs and shopping streets are right on your doorstep.
众多受欢迎的酒吧、餐厅、俱乐部和购物街都在酒店附近。
■But you should not take your easy ability in such matters for granted or assume that love will always arrive unbidden on your doorstep.
但你不应该因为这一天性而幻想爱情总是能自动地送上门来。
■But when his boyfriend, Nathan, shows up at their doorstep unannounced, Gunn must put on a charade to keep the relationship a secret.
但是当他的男友内森突然出现在他家门口时,古恩不得不玩猜谜游戏来保守他俩的秘密的恋爱关系。
■Weir: You heard our message. The Wraith are at our doorstep.
你听到我们的信息了,鬼魂就在我们的门外。
■An'there's a letter left on your doorstep,
你家门的台阶上有一封遗留的信
■Just touch me with heaven at my doorstep
你悄悄的站立在我窗前
■Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me there?
你是否望着台阶想着我?
■The gleaming,state-of-the art Manhi镚 Health Research Center near Maputo inMozambique, for example, may seem incongruous with the immediatedisease and misery on its doorstep.
例如,位于莫桑比克马普托的曼希萨最尖端卫生研究中心,似乎看起来并不从事直接疾病的研究,并且没有什么发展的前景。
■If the battle meets you at your doorstep, remember you always have theadvantage.
假如战斗发生在你的家门口,记住优势在你一方。
■Besides, if she'd been there, Bagpuss, the family's enormous tabby, wouldn't have been hunched on the doorstep.
再说,她要是在的话,他们家的大猫,白格卜斯,就不会缩在门前的台阶上了。
at/on one's doorstep
1. 在某人近旁
There's a swimming pool right at his doorstep.
他家门口就有个游泳池。
习惯用语camp on sb.'s doorstep1.■经常在某人门口纠缠camp upon sb.'s doorstep1.■经常在某人门口纠缠