swooping

英 [ˈswuːpɪŋ]

美 [ˈswuːpɪŋ]

v.  (尤指为了袭击)向下猛冲，俯冲; 突然袭击; 突击搜查; 突然行动
swoop的现在分词

BNC.46329 / COCA.35208

柯林斯词典

• VERB (警察或士兵)突击搜查，突然袭击
  If police or soldiersswoop ona place, they go there suddenly and quickly, usually in order to arrest someone or to attack the place.
  1. The terror ended when armed police swooped on the car...
     武警突袭了这辆车从而制止了这起恐怖活动。
  2. The drugs squad swooped and discovered 240 kilograms of cannabis.
     缉毒组突击搜查，查获了 240 千克的大麻。
  3. Swoopis also a noun.
     
  4. Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry.
     警察对一辆德国卡车进行突击搜查后扣留了 10 名可疑的非法移民。
• VERB (鸟或飞机)向下猛冲，俯冲
  When a bird or aeroplaneswoops, it suddenly moves downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement.
  1. More than 20 helicopters began swooping in low over the ocean...
     20 多架直升机开始下降向海面俯冲。
  2. The hawk swooped and soared away carrying something.
     那只鹰向下猛冲，抓住东西后又展翅高飞了。
• PHRASE 一下子; 一举
  If something is donein one fell swooporat one fell swoop, it is done on a single occasion or by a single action.
  1. In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.
     银行一下子就抹杀了这项政策暂时带来的好处。

双语例句

• The two sheets display near mirror reflections of each other, with the tigers arched across the compositions towards the center with the eagles swooping elegantly and powerfully down behind them.
  两张纸互相展示出近乎是镜面反映般的影像，老虎横越构图跃向中心，而雄鹰则在其背后优雅而充满力量地猛扑下来。
• So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
  他飞来飞去象个大蝙蝠倒是真有用。
• If both Italian teams put in low, or inadequate offers, German giants Bayern Munich could also become involved in swooping the stopper, as they are also following the situation with interest.
  但如果他们提出较低的转会费，而拜仁慕尼黑仍保持兴趣的话，是很有可能劫取他们的猎物。
• The wind were swooping down to tease the waves.
  大风猛扑到海面上戏弄着浪涛。
• While we were talking, several crows were swooping down on the red cherries.
  我们谈话的当里，数只乌鸦俯空袭击了红樱桃。
• The eagle glided through the sky, now rising, now swooping.
  鹰在天空中翱翔，时而向上急冲，时而向下猛扑。
• Little children ran among them, swooping and laughing; little boys with big white silk bows under their chins; little girls, little French dolls, dressed up in velvet and lace.
  孩子们在他们中间奔跑着，打闹着，大声笑着，男孩子们下巴底下戴着大个的白色丝绸蝴蝶领结，女孩子们打扮得就像法国玩具娃娃，穿着丝绸带花边的衣服。
• This international mentality is one reason UK and US investors are swooping on Dutch companies as they race to enter undervalued markets.
  对于竞相进入价值低估市场的英、美投资者而言，上述国际化思想正是他们选择突袭荷兰企业的原因之一。
• A hawk hovered in the air before swooping on its prey.
  扑向猎物前老鹰在空中盘旋。
• Two flights in the small propeller planes of Air Greenland, and I am swooping in to Illulissat, Greenland's third-largest town, well north of the Arctic circle.
  我搭了两趟格陵兰航空的小型推进式飞机，顿时已身处于格陵兰第三大城镇伊路利沙特。伊路利沙特正好位于北极圈的北部。