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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。