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

  1. VERB 潜行；悄悄巡行
    If an animal or a person prowls 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。
  2. PHRASE （动物）在觅食；（人）在寻找性伴侣（或生意）
    If an animal is on the prowl, it is hunting. If a person is on 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。
点击展开全文

双语例句

  1. A 300-strong task force is prowling the London streets during the Olympics.
    一支三百多人的督察队在奥运期间的伦敦街头四处巡查，他们的工作并不是为了保护市民，而是为了保护奥运会的赞助商，对所谓的“埋伏式营销”加以制裁。
  2. However, China's coastline is very long and there must be beaches tucked away from public prowling.
    然而，中国的海岸线很长，必然有部分海滩远离尘嚣。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. When not prowling the newsroom like a restless coach, encouraging his handpicked reporters and editors, he sat behind a glass office wall that afforded him a view of them and they a view of him.
    他要么是像一个焦躁不安的教练那样在新闻编辑部里来回走动，鼓励自己精心挑选的记者和编辑，要么就会坐在办公室的玻璃墙后，让人们能看到他，他也能看到其他人。
  6. You can spot them prowling the streets of Mexico City's wealthy enclaves in sports cars.
    在墨西哥城的繁华地带，你可以看到他们开着跑车驰骋在街上。
  7. This prowling cat is just like your grandfather.
    这猫每天四处乱窜，跟你爷爷一个样。
  8. I hear someone prowling around outside the window.
    我听到有人在窗外徘徊。
  9. Mary is so tired of all this traveling, living out of suitcases. Don't tell me that that handsome child has been in the habit of prowling about as she's done these last two or three days.
    玛丽真是厌倦了这种拎着手提箱东奔西跑的生活。不要对我说那个漂亮的孩子一向是东奔西跑，象最近两三天的样子。
  10. I saw someone prowling around among the trees.
    我见有人在树林里鬼鬼祟祟地走动。
  11. 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。
  12. I woke in the middle of then night and heard someone prowling about in the garden.
    我半夜里醒来听到有人在花园里蹑手蹑脚地走动。
  13. The beasts were prowling about over there.
    野兽在那边四处觅食。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. There is a strange man prowling in our backyard.
    有个陌生人在我们后院徘徊。
  17. 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。
  18. They hit the enemy warships prowling along the coast.
    他们击中沿海岸偷航的敌舰。
  19. Henry has an interest in prowling around a flea market.
    亨利对在跳蚤市场四处走来走去很感兴趣。
  20. 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。
  21. Once you've earned their respect, they're much less likely to push your partner into prowling.
    一旦你赢得的尊重，不大将你的伴侣推到女人那里去。
  22. The act of prowling ( walking about in a stealthy manner).
    来回走的动作（鬼鬼祟祟地走来走去）。
  23. They were prowling the aisles.
    他们在狭长的通道中逡巡。
  24. At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.
    在有月亮的午夜，有时候我路上碰到了许多的猎犬，它们奔窜在树林中，从我面前的路上躲开，好像很怕我而静静地站在灌木丛中，直到我走过了再出来。
  25. A bear was prowling in the forest.
    一只熊在森林中四处觅食。
  26. 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。
  27. He was like a canny wolf prowling in a forest of trees of his own creation.
    他就像一只狡猾的狼，在他自己造的一座树林里徘徊觅食。
  28. On his videos he was a leader of crowds, prowling the city in "Thriller"( 1983) in an outfit red as blood.
    他是音乐专辑中的民众领袖，一身血红色的穿戴，巡游在《颤栗》中的都市。
  29. The police caught him prowling around the neighbourhood.
    警察发现他在附近出没。
  30. So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.
    所以，不久之后不少画家就摸索到这个古色古香的老格林尼治村来，寻求朝北的窗户、十八世纪的尖顶山墙、荷兰式的阁楼，以及低廉的房租。
点击展开全文

考试分类

行业分类

柯林斯词典词频分级词汇

其他分类