prowling
英 [ˈpraʊlɪŋ]
美 [ˈpraʊlɪŋ]
v. 潜行(为捕猎等); 潜行(图谋不轨等); (因无聊、焦躁等)徘徊,走来走去
prowl的现在分词
COCA.41884
柯林斯词典
- VERB 潜行;悄悄巡行
If an animal or a personprowls around, they move around quietly, for example when they are hunting.- Policemen prowled around the building.
警察在大楼四周暗中巡查。
- Policemen prowled around the building.
- PHRASE (动物)在觅食;(人)在寻找性伴侣(或生意)
If an animal ison the prowl, it is hunting. If a person ison the prowl, they are hunting for something such as a sexual partner or a business deal.- Their fellow travellers are a mix of honeymooners, single girls on the prowl and elderly couples...
他们的旅伴中有度蜜月的新人,有寻觅伴侣的单身女孩,也有老年夫妇。 - The new administration are on the prowl for ways to reduce spending.
新政府在寻求削减开支的方法。
- Their fellow travellers are a mix of honeymooners, single girls on the prowl and elderly couples...
双语例句
- A 300-strong task force is prowling the London streets during the Olympics.
一支三百多人的督察队在奥运期间的伦敦街头四处巡查,他们的工作并不是为了保护市民,而是为了保护奥运会的赞助商,对所谓的“埋伏式营销”加以制裁。 - So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.
所以,不久之后不少画家就摸索到这个古色古香的老格林尼治村来,寻求朝北的窗户、十八世纪的尖顶山墙、荷兰式的阁楼,以及低廉的房租。 - However, China's coastline is very long and there must be beaches tucked away from public prowling.
然而,中国的海岸线很长,必然有部分海滩远离尘嚣。 - When not prowling the newsroom like a restless coach, encouraging his handpicked reporters and editors, he sat behind a glass office wall that afforded him a view of them and they a view of him.
他要么是像一个焦躁不安的教练那样在新闻编辑部里来回走动,鼓励自己精心挑选的记者和编辑,要么就会坐在办公室的玻璃墙后,让人们能看到他,他也能看到其他人。 - They hit the enemy warships prowling along the coast.
他们击中沿海岸偷航的敌舰。 - Henry has an interest in prowling around a flea market.
亨利对在跳蚤市场四处走来走去很感兴趣。 - Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it.
若李看见一只猫在屋檐上徘徊,就作出了哲学的分析。 - I hear someone prowling around outside the window.
我听到有人在窗外徘徊。 - They were prowling the aisles.
他们在狭长的通道中逡巡。 - In1987's "The Lost Boys", she played a vampire name Star who spent her nights prowling the boardwalks, using her charms and good looks to lure in men.
在1987年的电影《粗野少年族》中,她扮演名为斯塔的吸血鬼,于夜间潜行,用她美丽的外表和智慧蛊惑人类。