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

• 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！
• Today, though, the job of college president is less and less removed from that of the Avon lady ( except the house calls are made to the doorsteps of wealthy alums).
  然而，今天大学校长的差事与雅芳小姐的工作差别越来越小了（除登门拜访有钱的校友外）。
• The children and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the bishop as for the sun.
  孩子和老人都为主教而走到大门口来，有如迎接阳光。
• 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.
  雨点洒落在门阶上。
• 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。
• With their camels and their servants and their rich clothes and their golden rings and the bright colors of their turbans, they were a sight which brought all the village to its wondering doorsteps.
  带着骆驼、仆人，穿着华丽的衣服，戴着金戒指，还有头巾的明亮颜色，他们是一道风景，把村庄里所有人引到了惊奇的门槛。
• Network for the retail trade, information transmission and settlement offers unprecedented convenience and network sales, Consumer doorsteps, we can complete the process of shopping.
  网络为零售交易的信息传递和支付结算提供了前所未有的便利，在网络销售方式下，消费者足不出户，便可以完成购物过程。
• The green moss creeps onto the doorsteps, The lush grass is reflected through the bamboo curtains.
  苔藓给阶前铺上绿毯，芳草把帘内映得碧青。
• From reporters on doorsteps to editors reporting to proprietors with political backing, there were pernicious incentives.
  不管是大门口的记者，还是直接向拥有政治背景的财主汇报的编辑，均存在有害的激励机制。