| 单词 | leap |
| 释义 | leap (liːp ) Word forms: leaps , leaping , leaped , leapt language note: British English usually uses the form leapt as the past tense and past participle. American English usually uses leaped. 1. verb If you leap, you jump high in the air or jump a long distance. He had leapt from a window in the building and escaped. [VERB preposition/adverb] The newsreels show him leaping into the air. [VERB preposition/adverb] The man threw his arms out as he leapt. [VERB] Synonyms: jump, spring, bound, bounce Leap is also a noun. He won the championship with a leap of 2.37 metres. [+ of] 2. verb If you leap somewhere, you move there suddenly and quickly. The two men leaped into the jeep and roared off. [VERB preposition/adverb] With a terrible howl, he leapt forward and threw himself into the water. [VERB preposition/adverb] 3. verb If a vehicle leaps somewhere, it moves there in a short sudden movement. The car leapt forward. [VERB adverb/preposition] 4. countable noun A leap is a large and important change, increase, or advance. [journalism] The result has been a giant leap in productivity. [+ in] ...the leap in the unemployed from 35,000 to 75,000. [+ from] Contemporary art has taken a huge leap forward in the last five or six years. Synonyms: rise, change, increase, soaring 5. verb If you leap to a particular place or position, you make a large and important change, increase, or advance. The team leapt to 12th in the table. [VERB preposition] Synonyms: increase, advance, soar, surge 6. verb If you say that your heart leaps, you mean that you experience a sudden, very strong feeling of surprise, fear, or happiness. [literary] My heart leaped at the sight of her. [VERB] 7. verb If you leap at a chance or opportunity, you accept it quickly and eagerly. The post of principal of the theatre school became vacant and he leapt at the chance. [VERB + at] 8. leaps and bounds phrase You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly. [emphasis] He's improved in leaps and bounds this season. The total number of species on the planet appears to be growing by leaps and bounds. 9. leap in the dark phrase [usually PHRASE after verb] If you take a leap in the dark or a leap into the unknown, you do something without having any previous experience in that activity or knowledge of it. Prudent people are not going to take a leap in the dark. Once more he's making a leap into the unknown without a plan. Idioms: a leap in the dark [British] a situation in which you do not know what the results of an action will be, usually when you feel you have no other choice but to take this course of action The couple have taken a leap in the dark, selling their home in London and buying 10 acres of land in the country. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: leap of logic To us 'common' voters that was the 'unsustainable leap of logic'. Times, Sunday Times That's a leap of logic lost on angry voters. The Sun That's quite a leap of logic. The Sun Yet the 10ft moat of the orchestra pit also helps to distance us from a story that needs to make its leaps of logic infectious. Times, Sunday Times Drinking, you might be prepared to take more fantastical leaps of logic. Times,Sunday Times Well, not quite, but when 'enhanced' editions work, they can make the leap from gimmicky to something with real added value. Times, Sunday Times Only then can they make the leap of faith and of emphasis, and set their sights on the wider continent. Times, Sunday Times Those who are attractive, clever or amusing can make the leap from the oubliette to the limelight in no time. Times, Sunday Times Want to make the leap from hillwalker to mountaineer? Times, Sunday Times These services make it easy for people to make the leap of faith between stealing music and consuming it legally. The Sun The prices paid for the new teams also represent a leap of faith by the winning bidders, who almost certainly will not make profits in the short term. Times, Sunday Times The plan was welcomed by consumer groups as representing a leap forward in the provision of broadband in rural areas. Times, Sunday Times But what about an idea, invention or creation that represents a leap forward unlike anything in seven hundred years? Smithsonian Mag Artistically, it represents a leap into manhood. Times, Sunday Times It represents a leap of 17 per cent in the number of those consuming too little iron compared with the previous survey in 2014. Times, Sunday Times Their selection didn't require a leap of imagination. Times, Sunday Times Areas of the team still require a leap of faith. Times, Sunday Times To wipe malaria from the globe, however, will require a leap. Times, Sunday Times To believe in him now requires a leap of faith. Houston Chronicle To go farther required a leap in the dark, which he never took. Times, Sunday Times From here it was but a short leap to online reputation management. Times, Sunday Times Once you can do that, it's a relatively short leap to much bigger venues, and much bigger profits. Times, Sunday Times From this it was but a short leap for banks, regulators and accountants to jump to different conclusions. Times, Sunday Times From language that no longer had to describe, it was a short leap to painting that no longer had to depict. Times, Sunday Times The tiger captures a leopard by the short leap as in draughts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 25-year-old student can hurl and twirl himself sideways across a car in a single leap after taking gymnastic lessons. The Sun He doesn't add that he was such an oddball that, having made perhaps the greatest single leap in modern mathematics, he didn't bother to tell anybody for decades. Times, Sunday Times In a single leap, he went from journeyman to genius. Times, Sunday Times Jet thrusters in the boots also allow the wearer to jump hundreds of feet in a single leap, or to break a high fall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was reassuring businesses that there would not be a sudden leap into the unknown. Times, Sunday Times He made a sudden leap for it but struck the wall, and the ball caromed back onto the field. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The author apparently believes that organisation progresses by sudden leaps, but that the effects produced by the conditions of life are gradual. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was capable of 3,000 calculations a second, which was a huge technological leap in weather forecasting. Times,Sunday Times Apple has created a lucrative new division on the back of a captive user base, rather than making a great technological leap. Times,Sunday Times At the same time, a technological leap introduced synthetic fibres. Times, Sunday Times The warning comes on the eve of what many in the industry believe will be a great commercial and technological leap forward for security and police robots. Times, Sunday Times The introduction of polyurethane foam and fiberglass became the technological leap in design. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also had the best vertical leap that day with a jump of 37 in. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Standard drills include the 40-yard dash, shuttle run, bench press and vertical leap. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He ran the short shuttle in 4.44 seconds, short cone drill in 6.95 second and had a 41-inch vertical leap. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The new rules favour taller players and those with vertical leap, and many mobile ruckman now find it difficult to contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As such, height combined with a vertical leap ability are advantageous attributes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 跳 Japanese: 跳ねる |
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