If you're a hawk, you want to swoop down on a squirrel and not get scratched in the face.

如果你是一只鹰，你想要的是猛扑下来抓住松鼠，并且不被它抓伤脸。

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Suddenly, things have become a lot harder -- if you're a hawk, you want to swoop down on a squirrel and not get scratched in the face.

突然间，形势变得困难起来——如果你是一只鹰，你想要的是猛扑下来抓住松鼠，而不是被它抓伤脸。

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Mr Ramesh said: "it was great to see the eagle swoop down on its prey, it was so quick and graceful, but deadly at the sametime."

拉梅什说：“这太棒了能看到老鹰俯冲下来捕捉猎物，它是如此快速和优美，但致命杀机隐于瞬间。”

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The girl behind the register warned me to get my car off the street because the police were about to swoop down on the gang of thugs milling around in front of the taco place.

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Here again, live action merges seamlessly with digital artistry -- human horsemen by the thousands riding against swarms of Sauron's orcs, whose ranks are augmented by mountainous, mastodonish creatures called Mumakil, plus Fellbeast dragons that swoop down on their prey like Stuka bombers.

WSJ: Now That's an Epic

Throughout eight galleries, cranes and egrets roost in gilded screens, eagles swoop down on prey in hanging scrolls, sparrows and swallows variously flit across the black night of lacquer and the pure white of porcelain, and all manner of avian beauty graces works big and small.

WSJ: Flights of Feathered Fancy | Birds in the Art of Japan | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Lee Lawrence