Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense, plural doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, past tense, past participle doorstepped
1N-COUNT 门阶 A doorstep is a step in front of a door on the outside of a building. 门阶
2VERB (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. (记者)登门采访,蹲守 [British, disapproval]
The newspaper contacted his grandmother to trace his present address, and later doorstepped him at his home. [VERB noun]
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。
3PHRASE 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. 在…住所近旁
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。
They have to put up with a giant oil refinery right on their doorstep.