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

• The police caught him prowling around the neighbourhood.
  警察发现他在附近出没。
• There is a strange man prowling in our backyard.
  有个陌生人在我们后院徘徊。
• 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。
• Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it.
  若李看见一只猫在屋檐上徘徊，就作出了哲学的分析。
• 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。
• You can spot them prowling the streets of Mexico City's wealthy enclaves in sports cars.
  在墨西哥城的繁华地带，你可以看到他们开着跑车驰骋在街上。
• 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。
• 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。
• Be careful here, there are lions prowling about in the bush.
  当心，这里有狮子在灌木丛中觅食。