hoovering

英 [ˈhuːvərɪŋ]

美 [ˈhuːvərɪŋ]

v.  用真空吸尘器清扫(地毯、地板等)
hoover的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• 真空吸尘器
  AHooveris a vacuum cleaner.
• VERB 用真空吸尘器打扫
  If youhoovera room or a carpet, you clean it using a vacuum cleaner.
  1. She hoovered the study and the sitting-room.
     她用吸尘器打扫了书房和客厅。

双语例句

• He was busy hoovering when I arrived home from work.
  当我下班回家时，他正忙着用吸尘器吸尘。
• She's obsessively tidy, always hoovering and polishing.
  她有洁癖，整天不是用吸尘器吸尘，就是擦来擦去。
• Foreign investors such as sovereign-wealth funds and central banks have been happily hoovering up Britain's shorter-term securities and now own more than one-third of all outstanding gilts.
  外国投资者像主权财富基金和中央银行非常乐于持有英国短期债券，现在已拥有超过三分之一的债券。
• SINCE the late1990s China has been hoovering up the world's oil and mineral deposits to sustain its rise to the top table of world manufacturing.
  自20世纪90年代晚期以来，中国就像一台吸尘器，快把全球的石油和矿产资源吸干了。中国这样做，是为了能当上世界制造业的龙头老大。
• To sum up the negative mood, the novelist Kathy Lette wrote a column saying the trouble with being a woman was that you banged your head on the glass ceiling while doing the Hoovering at the some time.
  小说家凯西列特（KathyLette）在一篇专栏文章中总结了这种负面情绪，她写道：做女人的麻烦就在于，当你的脑袋撞到玻璃天花板时，同时却还要拿着吸尘器继续干活。
• China is hoovering up ever more commodities not just because its economy is growing so quickly, but also because that growth is concentrated in industries that use lots of resources.
  中国吸纳更多的资源商品，这不仅仅是因为它的经济增长迅速，还因为中国的增长集中在需要动用很多资源的产业。
• I think they will be quietly hoovering up things while prices are low.
  我认为它们会在价格处于低位之际悄然吸货。