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

• VERB 潜行；悄悄巡行
  If an animal or a personprowls 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。
• PHRASE （动物）在觅食；（人）在寻找性伴侣（或生意）
  If an animal ison the prowl, it is hunting. If a person ison 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。

双语例句

• A bear was prowling in the forest.
  一只熊在森林中四处觅食。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is a strange man prowling in our backyard.
  有个陌生人在我们后院徘徊。
• I saw someone prowling around among the trees.
  我见有人在树林里鬼鬼祟祟地走动。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。