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

• I am indignant at the actions of the US spy plane crashing our plane right at our doorsteps.
  我对美国侦察机在我国国门之下撞毁我方飞机的行动感到气愤。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• By the time the inevitable court battles are resolved, the waves may be lapping at our doorsteps.
  到了不可避免的诉讼战得到解决时，海浪拍打可能会在我们家门口。
• 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。
• 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。
• It allows women to collect fresh and unpolluted water on their doorsteps rather than being forced to trek many frustrating miles.
  使妇女可在家门口收集新鲜、未污染的水，而不必跋涉许多里路。
• 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。
• 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；