stoop是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 弯腰, 俯身; 屈从, 堕落, 沦为，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ajax answered, 'Menelaus, you have said well: do you, then, and Meriones stoop down, raise the body, and bear it out of the fray, while we two behind you keep off Hector and the Trojans, one in heart as in name, and long used to fighting side by side with one another.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stranger glanced swiftly at his torn glove and at his leg, made as if he would stoop to the latter, then turned and rushed swiftly up the steps into the inn.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the knife, with the knife that men use, with the knife of the hunter, I will stoop down for my gift.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before she could stoop to pick it up, one young lady of about fifteen or sixteen, who had been standing a little apart from the others, as though she had no recognised place among them, sprang forward and put it in her hand.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He seemed to stoop to something.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here was a boy that was respectable and well brung up; and had a character to lose; and folks at home that had characters; and he was bright and not leather-headed; and knowing and not ignorant; and not mean, but kind; and yet here he was, without any more pride, or rightness, or feel- ing, than to stoop to this business, and make him-self a shame, and his family a shame, before everybody.
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