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

• He deposed that he had seen a tramp prowling round the farm.
  他证实他看见一个流浪汉在农庄周围徘徊。
• 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。
• The police caught him prowling around the neighbourhood.
  警察发现他在附近出没。
• I saw someone prowling around among the trees.
  我见有人在树林里鬼鬼祟祟地走动。
• I hear someone prowling around outside the window.
  我听到有人在窗外徘徊。
• The beasts were prowling about over there.
  野兽在那边四处觅食。
• 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。
• 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。
• Also called cyclones or typhoons, hurricanes are giant storms prowling the world's tropical seas.
  飓风也被称作旋风或台风，是游弋于地球热带海域的巨型风暴。
• 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。