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

• 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。
• 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。
• A hawk hovered in the air before swooping on its prey.
  扑向猎物前老鹰在空中盘旋。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！