leap

英 [liːp] 美[lip]

vi. 跳，跳跃
n. 飞跃；跳跃
vt. 跳跃，跳过；使跃过
n. (Leap)人名；(法)莱亚

近义词 jump vault hop spring plunge dive bound hurdle pounce

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英英释义

1. a light springing movement upwards or forwards

2. an abrupt transition;: "a successful leap from college to the major leagues"

3. a sudden and decisive increase;: "a jump in attendance"

4. the distance leaped (or to be leaped);: "a leap of 10 feet"

同义词辨析

jump, leap, spring, hop, bound, skip

这些动词均有"跳，跳跃"之意。

jump：是普通用词，指用双脚向上跳，向下跳，或在同一平面上跳到有一定距离的某一点上，或跳过。

leap常可与jump换用，但侧重身体猛力向上升起并朝前急冲的动作，有时含突然的意味。

spring：更强调有力和弹跳的运动。

hop：指单脚短跳或双足猛力的动作。也指小鸟、青蛙等的跳。

bound：多指向前向上或向下跳跃、奔跳。

skip：指两脚交替轻地跳或跨的动作。

词组搭配

a leap in the dark

a daring step or enterprise whose consequences are unpredictable

冒险行动，未知数很大之举

考试真题

When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

The run has been taken; now is the time to leap.

In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap, conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.

In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap, conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.

实用场景例句

A dolphin leapt out of the water.: 海豚跃出水面。

We leapt over the stream.: 我们跳过了那条小溪。

The horse leapt a five-foot wall.: 那匹马跃过了一道五英尺高的墙。

She leapt out of bed.: 她突然翻身下了床。

He leapt across the room to answer the door.: 他冲过房间去开门。

I leapt to my feet (= stood up quickly) .: 我赶紧站了起来。

They leapt into action immediately.: 他们立即断然采取了行动。

(figurative)She was quick to leap to my defence (= speak in support of me) .: 她马上挺身而出为我辩护。

The photo seemed to leap off the page (= it got your attention immediately) .: 那张照片跃然纸上，引人注目。

His name leapt out at me (= I saw it immediately) .: 他的名字一下引起了我的注意。

Shares leapt in value from 476p to close at 536p.: 股价从476便士猛涨到收盘536便士。

I leapt at the chance to go to France.: 我立刻抓住了去法国的机会。

a leap of six metres: 一跳跳了六米

She took a flying leap and landed on the other side of the stream.: 她一个飞跃跳到小溪的对面。

(figurative)His heart gave a sudden leap when he saw her.: 他看见她时，心猛地一跳。

(figurative)Few people successfully make the leap from television to the movies.: 从电视业转向电影业很少有人成功。

He had leapt from a window in the building and escaped...: 他从大楼一个窗口跳出去跑了。

The newsreels show him leaping into the air...: 新闻短片里有他跳向空中的画面。

The two men leaped into the jeep and roared off...: 两名男子跳上吉普车，疾驰而去。

With a terrible howl, he leapt forward and threw himself into the water.: 他狂吼一声，向前猛冲，纵身跳进水中。

The car leapt forward.: 汽车向前飞驰。

The result has been a giant leap in productivity.: 其结果是生产力的大幅提高。

...the leap in the unemployed from 35,000 to 75,000...: 由35,000猛增至75,000的失业人数

Warwicks leap to third in the table, 31 points behind leaders Essex.: 沃里克队在排名中蹿升至第3名，落后领先的埃塞克斯队31分。

My heart leaped at the sight of her.: 我见到她时心都要跳出来了。

The post of principal of the theatre school became vacant and he leapt at the chance.: 戏剧学校校长一职出缺，他马上抓住了这个机会。

He's improved in leaps and bounds this season...: 他今季的表现一日千里。

The total number of species on the planet appears to be growing by leaps and bounds.: 地球上的物种数目似乎正飞速增长。

Prudent people are not going to take a leap in the dark...: 小心谨慎的人是不会轻易冒险的。

Once more he's making a leap into the unknown without a plan.: 他再次毫无计划地乱闯。

词态变化

复数: leaps;第三人称单数: leaps;过去式: leaped; leapt;过去分词: leapt; leaped;现在分词: leaping;

中文词源

leap 跳跃

来自古英语lepen,跳，词源同elope,gallop.可能进一步来自PIE*klei,弯，转，倾斜，词源同lean,incline.引申词义弹跳的姿势，跳跃。

英文词源

leap: leap: [OE] Prehistoric Germanic *khlaupan was the source of English leap, and of its relatives German laufen and Dutch loopen (these both denote ‘run’, a meaning which leap used to have – and which is preserved in its first cousins lope [15], a borrowing from Old Norse, and elope). It is not known where it ultimately came from, although a connection has been suggested with Indo-European *kloub-, source of Lithuanian šlubuoti ‘limp’. The verb loaf may be related.
=> loaf, lope
leap (v.): c. 1200, from Old English hleapan "to jump, run, leap" (class VII strong verb; past tense hleop, past participle hleapen), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan (cognates: Old Saxon hlopan, Old Norse hlaupa, Old Frisian hlapa, Dutch lopen, Old High German hlouffan, German laufen "to run," Gothic us-hlaupan "to jump up"), of uncertain origin, with no known cognates beyond Germanic. Leap-frog, the children's game, is attested by that name from 1590s; figurative use by 1704.
First loke and aftirward lepe [proverb recorded from mid-15c.]
Related: Leaped; leaping.
leap (n.): c. 1200, from Old English hliep, hlyp (West Saxon), *hlep (Mercian, Northumbrian) "a leap, bound, spring, sudden movement; thing to leap from;" common Germanic (cognates: Old Frisian hlep, Dutch loop, Old High German hlouf, German lauf); from the root of leap (v.). Leaps has been paired with bounds since at least 1720.

双语例句

1. Warwicks leap to third in the table, 31 points behind leaders Essex.: 沃里克队在排名中蹿升至第3名，落后领先的埃塞克斯队31分。

2. The scale of migration took a quantum leap in the early 1970s.: 20世纪70年代初，移民的规模骤然扩大。

3. The result has been a giant leap in productivity.: 其结果是生产力的大幅提高。

4. Prudent people are not going to take a leap in the dark.: 小心谨慎的人是不会轻易冒险的。

5. Once more he's making a leap into the unknown without a plan.: 他再次毫无计划地乱闯。