swoop
名词 n.
动词 v.
发音 swūp
英文释义
名词 n.
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An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward.
— The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. – Sun Tzu
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A sudden act of seizing.
— Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
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A quick passage from one note to the next.
— Originally, computers' attempts at making music were recognizable by their beeps and boops and weird swoops.
动词 v.
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To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
— The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.
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To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
— The dog had enthusiastically swooped down on the bone.
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To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
— And his Eagles, which can with the same ease as a kite swoops a chicken, snatch up a strong built Chamber of wood 12 foot square, & well crampt & fortified with Iron, with all its furniture, & a man besides, & carry it to the Clouds?
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To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
— Thus the Phyſitian looks with another Eye on the Medicinal hearb, then the grazing Oxe, which ſwoops it in with the common graſs: […]
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To pass with pomp; to sweep.
— Proude Tamer swoopes along, with such a lustie traine / As fits so brave a flood two Countries that divides: […]
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To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
— He was forever diving into dustbins or swooping on to the ground for cigarette ends.
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词源 1
From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”). Doublet of swaip. See also sweep, which was probably the basis for analogical restoration of /w/ in this word.
词源 2
From Middle English swopen, from Old English swāpan (“to sweep”). Doublet of swaip. See also sweep, which was probably the basis for analogical restoration of /w/ in this word.
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