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

• This prowling cat is just like your grandfather.
  这猫每天四处乱窜，跟你爷爷一个样。
• 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。
• 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。
• They hit the enemy warships prowling along the coast.
  他们击中沿海岸偷航的敌舰。
• 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。
• There is a strange man prowling in our backyard.
  有个陌生人在我们后院徘徊。
• The police caught him prowling around the neighbourhood.
  警察发现他在附近出没。
• 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。
• I saw someone prowling around among the trees.
  我见有人在树林里鬼鬼祟祟地走动。