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

• 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。
• The aircraft swooped down over the fields in search of its target.
  飞机向下俯冲着掠过田地上方搜索目标。
• 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。
• When an eagle swooped down for the kill, they would grab its wing or tail.
  当鹰俯冲下来逮猎物时候，他们便抓住鹰的翅膀或尾巴。
• Detectives swooped ( on the house) at dawn.
  侦缉人员于拂晓时（对那所房子）进行了突然搜查。
• The bird swooped down on its prey.
  那飞禽向着猎物猛扑下来。
• He guarded the slaves with dogs and hired thugs before police swooped.
  在警察突袭之前，他一直用狗和雇佣打手来管理这些奴隶。
• Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.
  推土机刚一启动，伦敦博物馆的考古学家们就蜂拥而至了。
• 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。
• Police swooped on the home after a two-week surveillance operation
  在两周的监视行动之后，警方突击搜查了那栋房子。