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

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  1. VERB (警察或士兵)突击搜查，突然袭击
    If police or soldiers swoop on a 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. Swoop is 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。
  2. VERB (鸟或飞机)向下猛冲，俯冲
    When a bird or aeroplane swoops, 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。
  3. PHRASE 一下子; 一举
    If something is done in one fell swoop or at 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。
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双语例句

  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. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. Helicopters were swooping low over the city to try to spot the animals.
    直升飞机在城市上空低空盘旋，试图找出动物。
  6. 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！
  7. As classical music softly plays and LED lights complement the shifting colors of the waning day, I lie on the floor and watch swooping bats and then miraculously for Beijing two stars appear in the sky.
    古典乐曲舒缓地奏起，LED灯光与不断变幻的暮色交相辉映。我躺在地板上，看着蝙蝠猛冲出来，然后又看到天上出现了两颗星星――在北京来说可谓奇迹。
  8. 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。
  9. 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）。
  10. 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。
  11. Seize or catch with a swooping motion.
    这只大鸟用爪子抓着捕获物。以飞扑的动作抓住或捕获。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. 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。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. The wind were swooping down to tease the waves.
    大风猛扑到海面上戏弄着浪涛。
  21. Swooping and diving through the air to catch flying insects.
    它们在空中俯冲，急飞，捕捉着飞虫。
  22. 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。
  23. 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。
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. 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。
  27. A hawk hovered in the air before swooping on its prey.
    扑向猎物前老鹰在空中盘旋。
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