stoop

かがむ、身をかがめる

頭と上半身を前や下に曲げる。

やさしい英語で： To bend your head and upper body forward and down.

• She stooped to tie her shoe.
• You must stoop under this low branch.
• He was stooping over the box when I arrived.

使い方： stoop to + verb (She stooped to pick up her bag.); stoop under something (He stooped under the low doorway.)

類義語： bend down, bend over

反対語： straighten

よく使う表現： stoop down, stoop to pick, stoop under something

身を落とす、卑しいことをする

普段なら自分にふさわしくないと思う、不正や恥ずべきことをする。

やさしい英語で： To do something dishonest or shameful that you would normally consider beneath you.

• Don't stoop to insults.
• She refused to stoop to cheating.
• Would he really stoop so low as to hurt a child?

使い方： stoop to something/doing something (I would never stoop to lying about a colleague.); stoop so low as to + verb (He stooped so low as to steal from his friends.)

類義語： sink, lower oneself

よく使う表現： stoop so low, stoop to cheating, stoop to insults

急降下する

鳥が、主に獲物を捕らえるため、地面に向かって急に飛び下りる。

やさしい英語で： If a bird does this, it dives suddenly toward the ground, usually to catch another animal.

• The hawk stooped toward the field.
• A falcon stooped on its prey.
• We watched the bird stoop from high above the cliff.

使い方： stoop on someone/something (The falcon stooped on a pigeon.)

類義語： dive, swoop

よく使う表現： stoop on prey, stoop at something, stoop from above

猫背、前かがみの姿勢

頭と肩が前に曲がっている姿勢。

やさしい英語で： A body position in which the head and shoulders bend forward.

• He has a slight stoop.
• Years of bending over a desk gave her a stoop.
• The man walked with a pronounced stoop.

類義語： hunch

よく使う表現： a slight stoop, walk with a stoop, a pronounced stoop