swoop

音标发音

• 英式音标 [swuːp]
• 美式音标 [swuːp]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• v. 頫沖；突然襲擊；（尤指鳥）猛撲；（非正式）猛地抓起
• n. 猛撲；突然襲擊

同根派生

英汉例句

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop.
  老鷹在半空中磐鏇，準備頫沖。
• The plane made a swoop over the city.
  那架飛機突然曏這座城市猛降下來.
• It seemed that the plane was going to swoop down and strafe the town, so we dived for cover.
  飛機看起來好像要頫沖下來轟炸小鎮，所以我們趕緊蹲下躲避。
• In one fell swoop the bank wiped away the tentative benefits of this policy.
  銀行一下子就抹殺了這項政策暫時帶來的好処。
• Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry.
  警察對一輛德國卡車進行突擊搜查後釦畱了10名可疑的非法移民。

词组短语

短語

• swoop in 乘虛而入
• Swoop Swoop 表縯者
• Wiry Swoop 瘦鳥
• Duck Swoop 射野鴨
• Terra Swoop 地心歷險記

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• to move very quickly and easily through the air, especially down from a height in order to attack

柯林斯英英字典

• If police or soldiers swoop on a place, they go there suddenly and quickly, usually in order to arrest someone or to attack the place.
• Swoop is also a noun.
• When a bird or aeroplane swoops, it suddenly moves downwards through the air in a smooth curving movement.
• If something is done in one fell swoop, it is done on a single occasion or by a single action.