swoop
verb/swuːp/
/swuːp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they swoop | /swuːp/ /swuːp/ |
| he / she / it swoops | /swuːps/ /swuːps/ |
| past simple swooped | /swuːpt/ /swuːpt/ |
| past participle swooped | /swuːpt/ /swuːpt/ |
| -ing form swooping | /ˈswuːpɪŋ/ /ˈswuːpɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) (of a bird or plane) to fly quickly and suddenly downwards, especially in order to attack somebody/something
（尤指为了袭击）向下猛冲，俯冲 - The aircraft swooped down over the buildings.
飞机俯冲到那些建筑物上方。 - A hawk swooped low over the field.
一只鹰低空盘旋在田野上空。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- low
- suddenly
- down
- …
- into
- on
- over
- …
- The aircraft swooped down over the buildings.
- [intransitive] swoop (on somebody/something) (especially of police or soldiers) to visit or attack somebody/something suddenly and without warning
突然袭击；突击搜查；突然行动 - Officers swooped on the vehicles as they left the ferry.
当车辆离开渡轮时，警察突然袭击了他们。 - Customs officers swooped on several houses last night looking for drugs.
海关人员昨晚突击检查了几所房子，搜查毒品。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- low
- suddenly
- down
- …
- into
- on
- over
- …
- Officers swooped on the vehicles as they left the ferry.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘sweep along in a stately manner’): perhaps a dialect variant of Old English swāpan, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the noun was ‘a blow, stroke’.