If something goes wrong—a hungry lizard prowling around for an ant snack, for instance—then a rush of ants returning without food sends waiting reserves a "Don't go out" signal.
如果出了什么问题——比如，一只饥饿的蜥蜴在四处寻找蚂蚁作为零食——那么一群没有食物的蚂蚁就会匆匆归来，给等待的蚂蚁发出“不要出去”的信号。
Then a prowling visitor arrives.
然后有一位潜行的不速之客来访了。
The warship is prowling several hundred yards away from the drifting launch.
军舰在漂浮的游艇附近数百英尺处徘徊。
The real Tom and Jerry: Plucky mouse shows prowling cat that he's no pip-squeak.
勇敢的老鼠用行动向潜行而来的猫表示自己绝不是无足轻重的懦夫。
Mind you, I still enjoy prowling open-air vegetable markets and old-fashioned butchers and bakers wherever I go.
必须提到的是，无论走到哪里，我始终钟爱到露天市场，老式肉店和面包坊逛上一逛。
They were prowling the aisles.
他们在狭长的通道中逡巡。
The beasts were prowling about over there.
野兽在那边四处觅食。
I woke up in the middle of the night and heard someone prowling around my yard.
我半夜醒来，听见有人在我的庭院里蹑足走动。
In finding me, you have proven that you are truly a master in the art of prowling.
能够找到我，证明你已经是当之无愧的潜行术大师了。
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。
The Lost symbol brings back Harvard University symbology professor Robert Langdon, this time prowling the corridors of power in Washington, d.c..
在《失落的符号》中，哈佛大学的符号学教授罗伯特·兰登又回来了，这一次是探寻华盛顿的权力秘密。
A child sees her father roaring and prowling like a lion, and might run away, but she doesn't act as though she thinks her father is actually a lion.
一个孩子看到她的父亲像一头狮子一样踱步咆哮可能会吓跑掉，但她并不会表现得像她当真以为她父亲是头狮子一样。
Investors are prowling for a breakthrough technology-solid state batteries, ammonia fuel cells-that will make energy as cheap and easy to store as gravel.
投资者开始瞄准突破性技术：固态电池和氨燃料电池。利用这些技术，能源就能变得像砂砾一样，不仅廉价，而且易于储存。
So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north Windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.
所以，搞艺术的人很快就都聚集到了这个古老而离奇的格林尼治村。他们四处游荡，搜寻朝北的窗子、18世纪的山墙、荷兰的阁楼和低价的房租。
So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north Windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.
所以，不久之后不少画家就摸索到这个古色古香的老格林尼治村来，寻求朝北的窗户、18世纪的尖顶山墙、荷兰式的阁楼，以及低廉的房租。
So the bears, which must consume up to 20,000 calories a day to pack on weight before winter hibernation, are increasingly prowling through towns and suburbs in search of food.
而黑熊在冬眠之前每天需要摄取2万卡路里以增加体重，于是它们就开始越来越多地来到城镇和市郊寻找食物。
Is it there where the young student sits, with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dream-land; where prose is prowling on the desk, and poetry hiding in the heart?
青年学生坐在桌旁，头儿低垂在书本上，思想却在青春的梦境里漂游；散文在书桌上蹀躞，诗歌深深地埋藏在心里。
It’s day one of Lightfair, the annual international trade show for everything that glows, glares, flickers, or shines—500 exhibitors and 24, 000 visitors prowling row after row of light after light.
“灯市”——一年一度的展览那些发出辉光、闪光、强光的照明设施国际贸易交流会——共有500位展商和24,000名参观者，在一排排灯饰前且行且赏。
At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.
在有月亮的午夜，有时候我路上碰到了许多的猎犬，它们奔窜在树林中，从我面前的路上躲开，好像很怕我而静静地站在灌木丛中，直到我走过了再出来。
"The earliest surreal photographs come from the 1850s, " added Sontag, "when photographers first went out prowling the streets of London, Paris, and New York, looking for their unposed slice of life.
同样是桑塔格，她说：“最早的超现实主义照片出现在1850年代，当时的摄影家们首次走出室外，逡巡在伦敦、巴黎和纽约的街头，寻找不事修饰的栩栩如生的现实生活的侧影。
"The earliest surreal photographs come from the 1850s, " added Sontag, "when photographers first went out prowling the streets of London, Paris, and New York, looking for their unposed slice of life.
同样是桑塔格，她说：“最早的超现实主义照片出现在1850年代，当时的摄影家们首次走出室外，逡巡在伦敦、巴黎和纽约的街头，寻找不事修饰的栩栩如生的现实生活的侧影。
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