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

• I woke in the middle of then night and heard someone prowling about in the garden.
  我半夜里醒来听到有人在花园里蹑手蹑脚地走动。
• I could hear him prowling around in his bedroom all night.
  我听到他整夜在卧室里踱来踱去。
• In1987's "The Lost Boys", she played a vampire name Star who spent her nights prowling the boardwalks, using her charms and good looks to lure in men.
  在1987年的电影《粗野少年族》中，她扮演名为斯塔的吸血鬼，于夜间潜行，用她美丽的外表和智慧蛊惑人类。
• 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。
• There is a strange man prowling in our backyard.
  有个陌生人在我们后院徘徊。
• 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。
• Be careful here, there are lions prowling about in the bush.
  当心，这里有狮子在灌木丛中觅食。
• 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。
• They were prowling the aisles.
  他们在狭长的通道中逡巡。
• The act of prowling ( walking about in a stealthy manner).
  来回走的动作（鬼鬼祟祟地走来走去）。