| 单词 | swoop |
| 释义 | swoop I. intransitive verb 1. a. obsolete b. < swooped by the table and glanced at the papers that lay there — John Steinbeck > < the wind will be swooping up … from the lake — J.J.Godwin > 2. a. < arming and preparing to swoop — Dorothy Thompson > — usually used with down < wind and snow swooped down upon him — Robert Murphy > < fixed newcomers with an eagle eye, swooped down upon them and demanded their names — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > b. < seagulls and cranes wheel and swoop — Geographical School Bulletin > < ladies in tights … swooping through the air over our heads — Mary Deasy > < boat swooped to the rise and fall of the waves — R.S.Porteous > c. < swooped down before the fire — F.C.Burnand > < in little more than an hour one may swoop down from winter to summer — John Muir †1914 > transitive verb 1. a. < the whirlwind's blast … swoops the haycocks off the lea — William Tennant > < British Intelligence … swooped him off to London — J.P.O'Donnell > b. < swooped her off the swing into his arms — Helen Howe > c. < swooped in a hot swallow, then aired his mouth — Helen Rich > 2. < storks swoop white streaks … against the luminous blue — Claudia Cassidy > II. a. < even as the fish's head fell from the crocodile's munching mouth there was a swoop of white wings — Francis Birtles > b. < baggage can … be pushed off onto the pier in one swoop — New York Times > < all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop — Shakespeare > c. < a swoop of security officers on a Communist espionage ring — Whittaker Chambers > < bring evacuees out to … ships in as few swoops as possible — Time > d. < swallows … fluttered in graceful swoops in and out — Nora Waln > < the swoop and curl of the road up … from the plain — John Connell > |
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