swoop

英 [swu?p] 美[swup]

低頻詞TEM8暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?swoops;第三人稱單數(shù):?swoops;過(guò)去式:?swooped;過(guò)去分詞:?swooped;現(xiàn)在分詞:?swooping;

swoop：食物撲。像肉食動(dòng)物撲向食物一樣——猛撲，突然襲擊。

swoop 猛沖，俯沖

來(lái)自 sweep 拼寫(xiě)變體，引申比喻義猛沖，俯沖。

swoop (v.): 1560s, "to move or walk in a stately manner," apparently from a dialectal survival of Old English swapan "to sweep, brandish, dash," from Proto-Germanic *swaip-, from PIE root *swei- (2) "to bend, turn" (see swivel (n.)). Meaning "pounce upon with a sweeping movement" first recorded 1630s (see swoop (n.)). Spelling with -oo- may have been influenced by Scottish and northern England dialectal soop "to sweep," from Old Norse sopa "to sweep." Related: Swooped; swooping.
swoop (n.): 1540s, "a blow, stroke," from swoop (v.). Meaning "the sudden pouncing of a rapacious bird on its prey" is 1605, from Shakespeare:
Oh, Hell-Kite! All? What, All my pretty Chickens, and their Damme, At one fell swoope? ["Macbeth," IV.iii.219]

3. 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(xiàng)政策暫時(shí)帶來(lái)的好處。

4. Police held 10 suspected illegal immigrants after a swoop on a German lorry.: 警察對(duì)一輛德國(guó)卡車(chē)進(jìn)行突擊搜查后扣留了10名可疑的非法移民。

5. It seemed that the plane was going to swoop down and strafe the town, so we dived for cover.: 飛機(jī)看起來(lái)好像要俯沖下來(lái)轟炸小鎮(zhèn)，所以我們趕緊蹲下躲避。