| 单词 | hot pursuit |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot pursuit hot pursuit n. close and intense pursuit; (sometimes) spec. continued (and thus legally permissible) pursuit of a suspect, etc., across an international or other jurisdictional border. ΚΠ ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 21 The Deer after hiz property for refuge took the soyl: but so masterd by hot pursuit on all parts that he waz taken quik in the pool. 1840 M. Paine Med. & Physiol. Comm. I. iii. 467 They obtrude upon the enemy's ground. This can only be excused on the principle of ‘hot pursuit’. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xv. 107 The foe poured after them In hot pursuit. 1906 F. T. Piggott Nationality II. 40 The principle of hot pursuit applies as well to breaches of the law in force in the territorial waters as to offences committed in the harbour or in the waters of the dominion. 1919 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 13 569 There is ample precedent for the practice of ‘hot pursuit’ in our past relations with Mexico. 1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Sept. i. 86/2 The Schengen agreement..permits police to engage in limited ‘hot pursuit’ across borders. 2004 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) May 83/2 A sea eagle circling overhead with a fish in its beak, with another eagle in hot pursuit. < as lemmas |
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