pounce
pounce 英 [paʊns] 美 [paʊns]
vi. 突袭，猛扑 vt. 扑过去抓住 n. 猛扑，爪
进行时:pouncing 过去式:pounced 过去分词:pounced 第三人称单数:pounces 名词复数:pounces
- To pounce is to attack suddenly by leaping onto your prey. A tiger will slowly sneak up on its prey and then suddenly pounce, using speed as much as strength to make the kill.
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- vi. 突袭，猛扑
- vt. 扑过去抓住
- n. 猛扑，爪
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1. This is the kind of careless mistake on which examiners love to pounce.
这是一种主考人喜欢抓住的粗心错误。
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2. To pounce on it, you need to customize an existing application or maybe even build a new one.
为了抓住它，你需要定制一个已有应用程序，或是甚至建立一个新的应用程序。
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3. When developers review things, they have a tendency to pounce on any little mistake they see regardless of its importance to the success of the iteration.
当开发人员审查东西时，他们倾向于不管他们看到的错误对于迭代的成功的重要性是多少都猛扑向任何微小的错误。
- pounce (n.) "claw of a bird of prey," late 15c., pownse, probably from Old French ponchon "lance, javelin; spine, quill" (Modern French poinçon; see punch (v.)). So called for being the "claws that punch" holes in things. In falconry, the heel claw is a talon, and others are pounces. Meaning "an act of jumping or falling upon" is from 1825. In Middle English also the name of a tool for punching holes or embossing metal (late 14c.).
- pounce (v.) 1680s, originally "to seize with the pounces," from Middle English pownse (n.) "hawk's claw" (see pounce (n.)). Meaning "to jump or fall upon suddenly" is from 1812. Figurative sense of "lay hold of eagerly" is from 1840. Related: Pounced; pouncing.
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