stoop

1.比较下面三句：

• Tom is too proud to stoop to please anyone.
• An honest person never stoops to lying.
• Tom was so weak as to stoop to lying to please his mother.

to please anyone表示目的，to lying里的lying是to的宾语，to please his mother表示目的。

2.a lean stooping man（一个弯腰曲背的瘦男子）主要是英国英语，a lean stooped man主要是美国英语。