doorsteps

英 [ˈdɔːsteps]

美 [ˈdɔːrsteps]

n.  门阶; (常用以做三明治的)厚面包片
v.  (记者)登门采访，蹲守
doorstep的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 门阶
  Adoorstepis a step in front of a door on the outside of a building.
• VERB (记者)登门采访，蹲守
  When journalistsdoorstepsomeone, they go to their home and try to get an interview or photographs, even when the person does not want to talk to them.
  1. 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 isonyourdoorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happensonyourdoorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet;
  天气晴朗的时候，他就睡在门口台阶上；下雨时，就睡到大空桶里。
• First, Americans have become intolerant of large, polluting industrial plants on their doorsteps.
  首先，美国人已经不能容忍在其家门口建立大型污染工厂。
• Virtually all Japanese newspapers are delivered by agents who work on commission, frequently turning up on doorsteps to collect money.
  实际上日本所有的报纸都是由代理商发送。代理商按业绩提成，忙忙碌碌在门口台阶上收钱。
• Therefore, people in southern China traditionally put chicken, meat, vegetables, rice, tea and fruit on their doorsteps that day.
  所以到了那一天家家户户都在门口台阶上放些鸡啊，肉啊，蔬菜，米饭，茶叶和水果。这也是中国东南一带的传统。
• Bundles of flowers were put before the doorsteps.
  一束束鲜花放在门阶前。走上台阶到门口去。
• The doorsteps and thresholds with the early grass springing up about them;
  那台阶和门槛，以及周围早早破土而出的青草；
• Editors cannot settle for an online replica of what is delivered to people's doorsteps every morning, fortt cautioned.
  编辑不能将一个每天送到人们家门口的东西做成在线复制品，福特提醒说。
• Rain drops were spattering on the doorsteps. press ( down) the accelerator of a car
  雨点洒落在门阶上。踩（下）汽车的油门
• Rain drops were spattering on the doorsteps.
  雨点洒落在门阶上。
• The wind blew away each feather as fast as I placed them on the doorsteps!
  我把羽毛一放在台阶上，风就把它们吹跑了！