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
- The beasts were prowling about over there.
野兽在那边四处觅食。 - Sometimes at night, I wished I could be back prowling the forest, spooking sleeping birds from their roosts, stealing clothes from clotheslines, and making merry, rather than en-during page after page of homework and fretting about my peers.
有时候在晚上,我盼望自己能回到森林中漫游,吓唬睡在窝里的鸟儿,从晾衣绳上偷衣服,找乐子,而不是一页一页地做家庭作业,为我的同学们烦心。 - 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。 - 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。 - You can spot them prowling the streets of Mexico City's wealthy enclaves in sports cars.
在墨西哥城的繁华地带,你可以看到他们开着跑车驰骋在街上。 - The act of prowling ( walking about in a stealthy manner).
来回走的动作(鬼鬼祟祟地走来走去)。 - At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.
在有月亮的午夜,有时候我路上碰到了许多的猎犬,它们奔窜在树林中,从我面前的路上躲开,好像很怕我而静静地站在灌木丛中,直到我走过了再出来。 - Be careful here, there are lions prowling about in the bush.
当心,这里有狮子在灌木丛中觅食。 - 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。 - 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。