English Dictionary

in hot pursuit

前置詞句

Pursuing someone in order to apprehend him, especially across a border.

日本語の意味

捕まえるために全力で追跡すること、特に国境を越えて追跡する行為 / 逃亡者を逮捕する目的で、執拗かつ猛烈に追跡する状態

Border agents chased the smugglers in hot pursuit across the border, determined to bring them to justice.

国境警備隊は密輸業者を逮捕するために国境を越えて追跡し、彼らを法の裁きにかける決意だった。

意味（1）

Pursuing someone in order to apprehend him, especially across a border.

PC Winters gunned the patrol car out of the side road where they'd been parked, bored and waiting for the end of their shift, and took off in hot pursuit.