1. doorstep

1. 门阶：别忘了索要报警器的标志,并把它们张贴在窗户和门上. 最后,提醒一句,外出旅游时,一定要请一位信得过的邻居,在你回来前帮你收好每日的报纸和邮件. 这是因为放在门阶(doorstep)上或邮箱里成堆的报纸邮件如同广告一样使大家都知道你家里没人.

2. 门口：continent: 洲 | doorstep: 门口 | embarked: 进行

3. 门前的台阶：style 风格;文体;式样 | doorstep 门前的台阶 | despise 轻视;鄙视

4. 槛：刑具torture instrument | 槛doorstep | 钻进to get into, fall into

1. 门阶
    A doorstep is a step in front of a door on the outside of a building.

2. (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.

doorstep

    e.g. 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. 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.

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    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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 sill of a door
    a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway

    Synonym: doorsillthreshold