doorstep是什么意思？

doorstep

英[ˈdɔ:step] 美[ˈdɔrstep]

• n. 门阶，厚三明治或面包；
• v. 上门访问；

复数：doorsteps;

第三人称单数：doorsteps;

过去式：doorstepped;

过去分词：doorstepped;

现在分词：doorstepping;

例句

• Newspapermen camped at his doorstep all day. 新闻记者整天在他门口纠缠着不走。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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.
• A couple of teenagers were kissing and cuddling on the doorstep. 一对年轻人在门阶上亲吻拥抱。
• 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.
• The couple chatted briefly on the doorstep before going inside. 夫妇俩进去之前在门阶上简短地说了几句.
• There she was on my doorstep with child in tow... 她站在我门口，身后跟着一个孩子。
• She continued to smile at the ranks of cameras on their doorstep. 她依旧对着门口的一排排照相机微笑着。
• I marched him across the room, down the hall and out onto the doorstep. 我拽着他穿过房间和大厅，来到门阶上。

词组

• on one's (或 the) doorstep
  situated very close by 在…门口；离…很近

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  门阶
  A doorstep is a step in front of a door on the outside of a building.
• VERB
  (记者)登门采访，蹲守
  When journalists doorstep someone, they go to their home and try to get an interview or photographs, even when the person does not want to talk to them.
  例句
  The newspaper contacted his grandmother to trace his present address, and later doorstepped him at his home. 报纸联系了他祖母，查到了他现在的住址后便前往登门采访。
• PHRASE
  在…住所近旁
  If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
  例句
  It is all too easy to lose sight of what is happening on our own doorstep... 我们很容易无视身边之事。 They have to put up with a giant oil refinery right on their doorstep. 他们不得不忍受就在家门口的巨型炼油厂。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  门阶
  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。 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。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway