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

• 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。
• British, European, Japanese and Canadian shoppers are swooping on New York to take advantage of the favourable exchange rate.
  英国、欧洲、日本和加拿大的购物者正涌向纽约，以利用汇率有利的优势。
• 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！
• Swooping and diving through the air to catch flying insects.
  它们在空中俯冲，急飞，捕捉着飞虫。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• As Toyota halts further sales of affected models, rivals are swooping in to snatch its customers: GM, Ford, and Hyundai have offered$ 1,000 rebates for traded-in Toyotas.
  在丰田暂停销售受影响车型之际，竞争对手一拥而上，争抢丰田的客户：通用、福特（Ford）和现代（Hyundai）都对置换丰田汽车提供1000美元的折价。
• A hawk hovered in the air before swooping on its prey.
  扑向猎物前老鹰在空中盘旋。
• So the all England Club gratefully accepted the services of a full-time Falconer to patrol the courts with a swooping bird of prey, named finnegan, acting as a highly effective deterrent.
  所以全英俱乐部欣然接受了一位专业驯鹰者的帮助，他训练出来的猎鹰“芬尼根”专门负责温网期间的场地巡逻，成为一个十分有效的威慑。