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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。