swoop
swoop 英 [swu:p] 美 [swup]
vi. 猛扑；突然袭击；突然下降；飞扑 n. 猛扑；俯冲；突然袭击 vt. 攫取；抓起
进行时:swooping 过去式:swooped 过去分词:swooped 第三人称单数:swoops 名词复数:swoops
- To swoop is to move downward quickly and dramatically, like an eagle that swoops down to catch its prey.
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- vi. 猛扑；突然袭击；突然下降；飞扑
- n. 猛扑；俯冲；突然袭击
- vt. 攫取；抓起
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1. Legions of birds swarm above looking to swoop in to grab the mackerel pike scattered all over the wreckage.
数以千计的海鸟蜂拥而至，从空中俯冲下来抢夺这片残骸中散落各处的秋刀鱼。
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2. So in 2001 he convinced some pals on the outside to swoop in and pick him up in a hijacked heli.
所以在2001年，他说服在外面的伙伴驾驶劫持来的直升机飞进监狱，将其吊上去。
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3. After Mr Arnault’s latest swoop, only about 7% of Hermès’s shares are traded on the stockmarket.
在阿诺德的最近的一次猛攻后，只有大约7%的股票还在证券市场上交易。
- swoop (n.) 1540s, "a blow, stroke," from swoop (v.). Meaning "the sudden pouncing of a rapacious bird on its prey" is 1605, from Shakespeare:
- 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.
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