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

• 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。
• 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。
• Swooping and diving through the air to catch flying insects.
  它们在空中俯冲，急飞，捕捉着飞虫。
• 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。
• 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。
• A hawk hovered in the air before swooping on its prey.
  扑向猎物前老鹰在空中盘旋。
• 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。
• 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。
• They had searched for insects for their young, swooping low over hedges and ponds ( while humans were baking bread and having arguments and darning socks).
  燕子们时而俯冲向下，低飞于树篱与池塘之上，为仔燕们寻觅食物（而此时，人们正忙着烘烤面包、互相争论和织补袜子）。
• 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。