doorstep

noun

1. 门阶
   a step outside a door of a building, or the area that is very close to the door
   1. The police turned up on their doorstep at 3 o'clock this morning.
      今天凌晨3点，警察出现在他们的住所门前。
2. （常用以做三明治的）厚面包片
   a thick piece of bread, usually one that is made into a sandwich

verb

1. （记者）登门采访，蹲守
   when a journalist doorsteps sb, he or she goes to the person's house to try to speak to them, even if they do not want to say anything

1. 门阶
   A doorstep is a step in front of a door on the outside of a building.
2. VERB (记者)登门采访，蹲守
   When journalists doorstep someone, 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。
3. PHRASE 在…住所近旁
   If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, 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。

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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. This was the weekend that the war finally landed on their doorstep.
   在这个周末，战火终于烧到了他们的家门口。
5. I marched him across the room, down the hall and out onto the doorstep.
   我拽着他穿过房间和大厅，来到门阶上。
6. She continued to smile at the ranks of cameras on their doorstep.
   她依旧对着门口的一排排照相机微笑着。
7. Those wishing to study urban development have a ready-made example on their doorstep
   那些想要研究城市发展的人眼下就有一个十分现成的范例。
8. Each one sweeps the snow from his own doorstep and doesn't heed the frost on his neighbour's roof.
   各人自扫门前雪，莫管他家瓦上霜。
9. A couple of teenagers were kissing and cuddling on the doorstep.
   一对年轻人在门阶上亲吻拥抱。
10. Love is finally at your doorstep.
    爱情终于来敲你的门了。
11. I stand on the doorstep shivering with cold.
    我站在门前台阶上，冻得浑身发抖。
12. If he turns up on your doorstep, will you see him?
    如果他出现在你家门口，你会不会见他？
13. On the doorstep lay her handkerchief, which she had dropped.
    在门前的台阶上有一条她落掉的手帕。
14. They arrive at the doorstep of god.
    他们到达了上帝的门口。
15. Two days later, a box arrived on Liza's doorstep.
    两天后，一个盒子就递到了莉莎的门口。
16. Whenever I pass she is sitting on the doorstep.
    每次我经过时，她总在门前台阶上坐着。
17. The daughter halted, frowning. The sound stopped by the doorstep.
    女儿停住脚步，皱皱眉头。声音到门阶边停住了。
18. She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall.
    她出现在我在康沃尔的房子的门阶上。
19. When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped.
    她一出门走到台阶上，我的心就怦怦跳。
20. One Friday evening I came home from work to find a big beautiful German shepherd on our doorstep.
    一个星期五的晚上我下班回家，在我们的门阶上发现了一条硕大而又漂亮的德国牧羊犬。
21. Mason: We found you at the doorstep, and you were in that basket.
    梅森：我们是在门阶上发现了你的，你就在那个篮子里。
22. He stumbled over the doorstep.
    他在门阶处绊了一脚。
23. The little match girl had frozen to death on their doorstep.
    卖火柴的小女孩在他们的门前冻死了。
24. As we finish, he stands on the doorstep as the rain buckets down and says goodbye.
    当我们完成的时候，他站在门前的台阶上下来，因为一场雨桶说再见。
25. I arrived home to find him sobbing uncontrollably on the doorstep.
    我到家后发现他在门阶上控制不住地抽泣。
26. I arrived on his doorstep one minute after the appointed hour.
    我比约定时间晚了一分钟到达他的家门口。
27. Hesitating a moment, I left my doorstep and went up and down the street gathering the litter.
    犹豫了一会，我走下台阶来到街上捡拾散落的物品。
28. I show up on your doorstep.
    我出现在你的家门前。
29. I stood shivering with cold on the doorstep.
    我站在门口台阶上，冷得直哆嗦。
30. We stood on the doorstep for ages before he asked us in.
    我们在门阶上站了很久之后他才请我们进去。

n.

on the/your doorstep

• 在某人的住所旁
  very close to where a person lives
  1. The nightlife is great with bars and clubs right on the doorstep.
     有这些酒吧和夜总会位于家门口，夜生活真是棒极了。

noun

1. the sill of a door

   Synonym:    doorsillthreshold