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***。
  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

• 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）。
• The3-D images are mainly the depiction of hunting scenes, red images of the now extinct wild cattle and stags, and eagles swooping down on abstract figures once carved out of the walls of Ç atalh ö y ü k.
  三维影像主要描绘了狩猎场景，现已绝迹野生牛和雄鹿的红色图像，以及俯身下扑抽象动物的老鹰，这些都源自恰塔霍裕克的壁画。
• 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。
• Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank.
  雪橇穿过积雪，越过凹坑，猛地冲向湖心。最后，我们会穿过晶莹闪烁的冰面直到对岸。这是多么有趣、多么疯狂的游戏啊！
• 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 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 wind were swooping down to tease the waves.
  大风猛扑到海面上戏弄着浪涛。
• But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is swooping down from the north.
  然而，和其他不太幸运的地区一样，美国东部正遭遇一股从北方呼啸而下的冷空气。
• 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。
• 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。