prowling

英 [ˈpraʊlɪŋ]

美 [ˈpraʊlɪŋ]

v.  潜行(为捕猎等); 潜行(图谋不轨等); (因无聊、焦躁等)徘徊，走来走去
prowl的现在分词

复数：prowlings　现在分词：prowling　

COCA.41884

柯林斯词典

• VERB 潜行；悄悄巡行
  If an animal or a personprowls around, they move around quietly, for example when they are hunting.
  1. Policemen prowled around the building.
     警察在大楼四周暗中巡查。
• PHRASE （动物）在觅食；（人）在寻找性伴侣（或生意）
  If an animal ison the prowl, it is hunting. If a person ison the prowl, they are hunting for something such as a sexual partner or a business deal.
  1. Their fellow travellers are a mix of honeymooners, single girls on the prowl and elderly couples...
     他们的旅伴中有度蜜月的新人，有寻觅伴侣的单身女孩，也有老年夫妇。
  2. The new administration are on the prowl for ways to reduce spending.
     新政府在寻求削减开支的方法。

双语例句

• The police caught him prowling around the neighbourhood.
  警察发现他在附近出没。
• Chinese buyers, their share prices soaring, are prowling the globe for acquisitions.
  股价日益飙升的中国买家正在全球四处寻觅收购机会。
• He deposed that he had seen a tramp prowling round the farm.
  他证实他看见一个流浪汉在农庄周围徘徊。
• Also called cyclones or typhoons, hurricanes are giant storms prowling the world's tropical seas.
  飓风也被称作旋风或台风，是游弋于地球热带海域的巨型风暴。
• Be careful here, there are lions prowling about in the bush.
  当心，这里有狮子在灌木丛中觅食。
• Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it.
  若李看见一只猫在屋檐上徘徊，就作出了哲学的分析。
• Sometimes at night, I wished I could be back prowling the forest, spooking sleeping birds from their roosts, stealing clothes from clotheslines, and making merry, rather than en-during page after page of homework and fretting about my peers.
  有时候在晚上，我盼望自己能回到森林中漫游，吓唬睡在窝里的鸟儿，从晾衣绳上偷衣服，找乐子，而不是一页一页地做家庭作业，为我的同学们烦心。
• In1987's "The Lost Boys", she played a vampire name Star who spent her nights prowling the boardwalks, using her charms and good looks to lure in men.
  在1987年的电影《粗野少年族》中，她扮演名为斯塔的吸血鬼，于夜间潜行，用她美丽的外表和智慧蛊惑人类。
• I could hear him prowling around in his bedroom all night.
  我听到他整夜在卧室里踱来踱去。
• There is a strange man prowling in our backyard.
  有个陌生人在我们后院徘徊。