swooped

英 [swuːpt]

美 [swuːpt]

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的过去分词和过去式

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 plane swooped in on its bombing run.
  飞机俯冲下来进行轰炸。
• The eagle swooped down to snatch a young rabbit.
  老鹰猛扑下来抓住小兔子。
• A rough May wind swooped along the avenue, whipping the girls'skirts and hats.
  一股五月的疾风扫过大街，吹打着姑娘们的裙子和帽子。
• He swooped up his trophy and marched out of the room.
  他一下子抓起他的奖品迈出了房间。
• She swooped down to the nest with his last meal.
  她俯冲而下，给小鹰带来它最后的饭餐。
• If you weren't here, that hawk would have swooped down and snatched me for dinner.
  如果你不在这里，那只鹰会冲下来把我叼去当晚餐。
• The owl swooped and picked up the mouse in its claws.
  这猫头鹰猝然下扑，用爪子抓起一只老鼠。
• The eagle swooped down on the rabbit.
  那只鹰猛地向兔子俯冲下来。
• Instead of sniping at me sporadically from far away, they suddenly swooped down on me.
  他们不再是从远处间断地向我进行狙击，而是突然向我猛扑过来。
• Less than three months ago, federal agents swooped in to close sawmills, confiscate wood and smash charcoal furnaces in a government crackdown on illegal logging.
  不到三个月前，联邦的人在政府打击非法采伐的行动中关闭了这里的锯木厂，没收了木头并且捣毁了烧炭用的熔炉。