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

复数：prowlings　现在分词：prowling　

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.
  1. Policemen prowled around the building.
     警察在大楼四周暗中巡查。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• Once you've earned their respect, they're much less likely to push your partner into prowling.
  一旦你赢得的尊重，不大将你的伴侣推到女人那里去。
• 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。
• I could hear him prowling around in his bedroom all night.
  我听到他整夜在卧室里踱来踱去。
• I hear someone prowling around outside the window.
  我听到有人在窗外徘徊。
• I woke in the middle of then night and heard someone prowling about in the garden.
  我半夜里醒来听到有人在花园里蹑手蹑脚地走动。
• A bear was prowling in the forest.
  一只熊在森林中四处觅食。
• He was like a canny wolf prowling in a forest of trees of his own creation.
  他就像一只狡猾的狼，在他自己造的一座树林里徘徊觅食。
• 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。
• They hit the enemy warships prowling along the coast.
  他们击中沿海岸偷航的敌舰。