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

• Its swooping form, which suggests two boomerangs placed side by side, has been compared to a dragon.
  它那迂回的外形看上去像是并排放在一起的两个飞盘，有人也把它比喻为一条龙。
• 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。
• The Falcon went into a rapid dive, swooping to a kill.
  猎鹰急速俯冲，直朝着猎获物扑去。
• 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。
• The dragon did not seem to have noticed anything: It was already fifty feet away, swooping low over the lake to scoop up water in its scarred snout.
  巨龙似乎什么也没有注意到，它已经在五十英尺外，正俯冲到湖面上用伤疤累累的口鼻饮水。
• 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。
• Swooping and diving through the air to catch flying insects.
  它们在空中俯冲，急飞，捕捉着飞虫。
• But the company is nevertheless widely perceived as swooping in when it senses weakness with a seductive offer to buy.
  不过，当该公司看到一个公司的弱点，提出诱人的条件购买时，给人的普遍感觉是乘虚而入。
• Cramped, cluttered with tables and hung with an overly garish chandelier, like a swooping silver porcupine, the walls are wooden slats that make it hard to focus.
  大堂略显狭窄，桌子随处可见，屋顶挂着一顶过于耀眼的吊灯，就像一头要飞奔下来的银色箭猪，墙壁是木板条制作而成，这让它难以找到焦点所在。
• They had searched for insects for their young, swooping low over hedges and ponds ( while humans were baking bread and having arguments and darning socks).
  燕子们时而俯冲向下，低飞于树篱与池塘之上，为仔燕们寻觅食物（而此时，人们正忙着烘烤面包、互相争论和织补袜子）。