step

A2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #692 ★★★★★

n. 步骤, 步, 步幅, 脚步声, 踏级, 步伐, 短距离, 步态, 手段, 等级 vt. 踏, 以步测量, 跨步, 使成阶梯状 vi. 跨步, 轻快地走, 跳舞, 踩, 踏上, 行走 [计] 步骤

发音

US /stɛp/
UK /stɛp/

词形变化

steps 复数 stepped steppedst steppest steppeth stepping steps 三单 steps stept stope stepping 现在分词 stepped 过去式 stepped 过去分词 stept 过去式 stept 过去分词 stope 过去式 stope 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

踏,踩;走

to bring your foot down on something

释义与例句

n. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.

  2. 2.

    A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.

  3. 3.

    The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.

  4. 4.

    The button joining a glass's stem to its foot.

    艺术
  5. 5.

    A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.

    He improved step by step, or by steps.

    The first step is to find a job.

  6. 6.

    A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.

    The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.

  7. 7.

    The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.

    One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.

  8. 8.

    A small space or distance.

    It is but a step.

  9. 9.

    A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.

  10. 10.

    A gait; manner of walking.

    步态

    The approach of a man is often known by his step.

  11. 11.

    Proceeding; measure; action; act.

    Moon has also requested that government officials take additional steps to help fight pollution, his spokesman said.

  12. 12.

    A walk; passage.

    复数形式
  13. 13.

    A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.

    复数形式
  14. 14.

    A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.

    航海 交通
  15. 15.

    One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.

  16. 16.

    A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

  17. 17.

    The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.

    音乐

    Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.

  18. 18.

    A change of position effected by a motion of translation.

  19. 19.

    A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.

    计算机 工程 数学

    Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.

  20. 20.

    Kick scooter.

    俚语
  21. 21.

    Stepping (style of dance)

  22. 1.

    A stepchild.

    非正式
  23. 2.

    A stepsibling.

    非正式
v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.

    不及物

    Come one, come all. Step right up!

    to step to one of the neighbors

  3. 3.

    To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To dance.

  5. 5.

    To move mentally; to go in imagination.

    比喻 不及物
  6. 6.

    To set, as the foot.

    及物
  7. 7.

    To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

    及物 航海 交通
  8. 8.

    To advance a process gradually, one step at a time.

    及物
  9. 9.

    To depart.

    不及物 俚语 非裔美国英语

    You best step, cuz things are about to jump off.

  10. 10.

    To be confrontational.

    不及物 俚语

    You tryna be steppin right now? You better bring it if so.

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English steppen, from Old English steppan (“to step, go, proceed, advance”), stepe (“step”), from Proto-West Germanic *stappjan, from Proto-Germanic *stapjaną (“to step”), *stapiz (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *stebʰ- (“to support, stomp, curse, be amazed”). Cognate with West Frisian stappe (“to step”), North Frisian stape (“to walk, trudge”), Dutch stappen (“to step, walk”), Walloon steper (“to walk away, leave”), German stapfen (“to trudge, stomp, plod”) and further to Slavic Polish stąpać (“to stomp, stamp, step, tread”), Russian ступать (stupatʹ) and Polish stopień (“step, stair, rung, degree”), Russian степень (stepenʹ). Related to stamp, stomp.

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