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

• 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。
• 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。
• I saw someone prowling around among the trees.
  我见有人在树林里鬼鬼祟祟地走动。
• 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。
• On his videos he was a leader of crowds, prowling the city in "Thriller"( 1983) in an outfit red as blood.
  他是音乐专辑中的民众领袖，一身血红色的穿戴，巡游在《颤栗》中的都市。
• 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。
• There is a strange man prowling in our backyard.
  有个陌生人在我们后院徘徊。
• 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。
• 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。
• Mary is so tired of all this traveling, living out of suitcases. Don't tell me that that handsome child has been in the habit of prowling about as she's done these last two or three days.
  玛丽真是厌倦了这种拎着手提箱东奔西跑的生活。不要对我说那个漂亮的孩子一向是东奔西跑，象最近两三天的样子。