swoop

英 [swuːp] 美 [swup]

解释

※ 提供单词"swoop"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

swoop 猛冲，俯冲

来自 sweep 拼写变体，引申比喻义猛冲，俯冲。

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]

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3. 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。

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。

5. It seemed that the plane was going to swoop down and strafe the town, so we dived for cover.: 飞机看起来好像要俯冲下来轰炸小镇，所以我们赶紧蹲下躲避。