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doorstep

/dawr-step, dohr-/US // ˈdɔrˌstɛp, ˈdoʊr- //UK // (ˈdɔːˌstɛp) //

门阶,门槛,门口,门前

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.
    • : British Slang. a thick slice of bread.

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Examples

  • This southern Illinois sits on the back doorstep as poor as Job’s turkey, as beautiful as redbud trees in spring.

  • Once word gets out that a British man is interested in buying bichos, villagers start showing up at his doorstep like UPS drivers.

  • As its name suggests, Try the World brings all of those goodies from around the globe straight to your doorstep.

  • Time is precious—buy yourself some more of itWe can send messages anywhere in the world instantly, travel across oceans in a matter of hours, and get almost anything we can dream of hand-delivered to our doorsteps within days.

  • Available for patients of all ages, tests are sent out via FedEx and arrive on doorsteps within 48 hours of ordering.

  • Oprah, when she came, found a legion of her fans on its doorstep.

  • Despite doing nothing to get the man of her dreams, he arrives at her doorstep as if she Ubered the heartthrob.

  • One morning a few years ago, the editor left his apartment to find an ax stuck into a log on his doorstep.

  • When I reminded him that that could mean hundreds of offspring showing up on his doorstep, he didn't flinch.

  • From their perspective, as long as ISIS sits on Baghdad's doorstep, political change can wait.

  • A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.

  • For a while he raged like a flame upon the doorstep, but he was no match for his vigorous opponent.

  • On the doorstep stood the little seamstress ready to cast a handful of dried peas.

  • As for Ren, he sat on the single doorstep and whittled pegs on which to hang his rifle inside the door.

  • The first of them greeted Sara Lee one morning as she stood on her doorstep in the early sun.