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 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。
• Then abruptly a silent moth hawk swooped down from the sky and caught the chameleon in its beak.
  突然，一直蛾鹰悄无声息地从天而降，一口叼起变色龙就走。
• 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。
• The bird swooped down on its prey.
  那飞禽向着猎物猛扑下来。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 plane swooped in on its bombing run.
  飞机俯冲下来进行轰炸。
• 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。
• 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。