leap
美 [lip] 
英 [liːp]
- n.跳越；跳跃；跳高；骤变
- v.跳；跳跃；跳越；猛冲
- 网络飞跃；跃过；跳动
词形变化
第三人称单数：leaps 现在分词：leaping 过去式：leaped 过去式：leapt 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [i][t] 跳；跳跃；跳越to jump high or a long way |
| 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。 |
2. | [i] + adv./prep. 猛冲；突然做（某事）to move or do sth suddenly and quickly |
| She leapt out of bed. 她突然翻身下了床。 |
| He leapt across the room to answer the door. 他冲过房间去应门。 |
| 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。 |
| 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) . 他的名字立刻映入了我的眼帘。 |
3. | [i] ~ (in sth) (from…) (to…) 骤增；剧增；猛涨to increase suddenly and by a large amount |
| The shares leapt in value from 476p to close at 536p. 股价从 476 便士猛涨到收盘时的 536 便士。 |
1. | 跳越；跳跃；跳高a long or high jump |
| 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. 她助跑后一个飞跃跳到小溪的对面。 |
| His heart gave a sudden leap when he saw her. 他看见她时，心猛地一跳。 |
| 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。 |
2. | ~ (in sth) 骤变；剧增；激增a sudden large change or increase in sth |
习惯用语
look before you leap
三思而后行used to advise sb to think about the possible results or dangers of sth before doing it
by/in leaps and bounds
非常迅速；飞跃地；突飞猛进；大量地very quickly; in large amounts
| Her health has improved in leaps and bounds. 她的健康已迅速好转。 |
a leap in the dark
冒险举动an action or a risk that you take without knowing anything about the activity or what the result will be
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
All years that are divisible by 4 should be leap years of 366 days, except those which coincide with the beginning of a century.
除了世纪开始的年份外，所有被四整除的年份应是由366天构成的闰年。
It seems, though that no matter how much long work you do, you won't produce the benefits of hard work unless you are willing to leap.
看起来，不管你工作多么长的时间，除非你能有所跨越，否则将得不到努力工作的任何好处。
It was the wolf manner of fighting, to strike and leap away; but there was more to it than this.
这是典型的狼的进攻方式：攻击然后迅速跳开，但是要比这次凶残的多。
If you were looking for a chance to make a giant leap in self-improvement, then I've got great news for you!
如果你也正在寻找一个大跨越的自我发展机会，那么你算是等到了好消息！
These folks had already made much progress in their evolution and are ready to take a leap forward.
这些人已经取得了很大进展及其演变和准备采取的飞跃。
I believe that our efforts must be cooperation with you in the cause of the leap in the process of help on alone.
相信在我们的不懈努力配合下一定可为您在事业的飞跃过程中助上一力。
It was the most amazing leap I ever saw in my life, except by nutty acrobats, much like a mountain goat, which he was, it turned out.
这是我一生中除了那些疯狂杂耍艺人之外见过最使人吃惊的跳跃，这恰好说明他正象北美的高山山羊。
However, to make a true leap, we have to see this as a common challenge for the whole industry and for politicians.
然而，为了实现真正的飞跃，我们必须视其为整个行业和政治家的共同挑战。
He looked to the sky and he gave a great leap.
他望着天空，敏捷地跃起
He said that the European Union was about to take a "quantum leap" that will "fundamentally change Europe. "
他表示欧盟将会有一次重大的飞跃，欧洲即将迎来一场前所未有的改变。
This may seem like a bit of a leap, but let's jettison some historical baggage.
这可能类似于一点小跳跃，但让我们抛开某个历史的包袱。
It was as if I had to make up my mind to leap from the top of a high house, or plunge into a great depth of water.
我发现这是很难的事。这就好像我必须下定决心从很高的屋顶上跳下来，或者跳进一片深水中。
With a leap and a bound, the bridge bank is well-capitalised and capable of raising new funds to lend out to good projects.
这样一来，桥银行变得资本充裕，有能力筹集新的资金，向优质项目提供贷款。
Nina Dobrev is beautiful, but is she ready to make the leap to the big screen in such a legendary role?
妮娜·杜波夫很美，但是她是不是打算通过在这部经典电影中扮演这个传奇角色来转跳到大银幕上呢？
The brief account of the Great Leap Forward in On China concludes with the observation that more than 20m died as a result of famine.
《论中国》中讲述大跃进的篇幅不多，最后的结论是：当时有超过2000万人死于饥荒。
We had this patient who suffered penile fracture after running across the room and trying to penetrate his wife with a flying leap.
我们有一个病人，在跑过整个房间后试图用一个飞跃插入他的妻子，最终惨遭阴茎折断。
From this perspective, the Great Leap Forward movement can be said to "catch up" thinking into practice is all about.
从这个角度看，大跃进运动可以说是“赶超”思想付诸实践的体现。
But good or bad, KVM is in the kernel, which gives it a huge leap forward against the existing solutions.
但是不论好坏，KVM位于内核中，这对于现有解决方案来说是一个巨大的飞跃。
he was waiting until the next moment for that predatory leap, which for him was Pixar and then, in an even bigger way, the iPod.
直到下一个“猎食者之跃”时刻到来之前，他一直在等待，这对他而言，之前是皮克斯动画，之后是ipod-----以一种影响更为巨大的方式。
Superstar Status: If only she was in the other movie, this would have been a resounding leap upwards.
巨星状态：如果她能出现在另一部影片里，这早应该是个巨大的飞跃了。
The mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
那只耗子突然一下跳出水面，好象吓得混身都在发抖。
April bursts upon our Virginia hills in one prodigious leap.
四月，有时不知怎的一跃，就来到了弗吉尼亚的山坡上。
In leap years there are 366 days.
在闰年有366天。
"The great leap forward here is that this is no longer a question of aid. It's a question of development, " Gurria said.
葛利亚称，这个飞跃的重点在于不再是关于援助的问题，而是关于开发。
He said the famous words "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. "
他说：对我来说这只是迈了一小步，对人类科学技术来说确是迈出了一大步。
'Nine months ago, investors had to make a very big leap of faith, ' says Hasan Tevfik, a global-stock strategist at Citigroup in London.
花旗集团（Citigroup）驻伦敦全球股市策略师塔夫菲克（HasanTevfik）说，九个月前，投资者必须拿出相当大的信心才行；
SEALs must leap out of an airplane, parachute into the ocean, and then swim to the boat waiting in the distance.
队员们必须从飞机上跳下，空降至海面，然后游到在远处等候他们的船只上。
But let's take a leap in logic and say that President Obama is willing to revisit his way of thinking.
不过让我们来一次逻辑上的跳跃，假定奥巴马总统愿意重新采取他的思维方式。
So he forced himself to wait until he would be close enough to leap off and grab the boys.
所以，他强迫自己等待，等到离孩子足够近的时候，他再一跃而下—把将他们抓住。
The two of you take a few running steps and leap into the void, at which point the pilot and the wind take over.
你们俩小跑出几步，然后跳跃，跨出山的区域，方向由飞行员和风向来掌控。
Seeing how the hunger for immortality damaged her husband, she did not leap into those arms as much as drift.
由于亲见对盛名的渴望如何毁了自己的丈夫，她漂流于这些男人的怀抱之间，并没有投入自己的感情。
It's easy to take the leap into dancing with the right pair of shoes.
这很容易考虑到一双合适的鞋子跳舞的飞跃。
But, I feared, at the moment I'd give in and take the leap of faith, it would open up and swallow me whole.
就在我终于决心要跳入水中的一瞬间，我害怕了，怕水会将我吞没。
He said the HKMA, however, was satisfied that genuine trade transactions were behind the leap.
但他说，金管局满意地发现这种大幅增长的原因是正规的贸易结算。
And in the leap up in frequency, enough creative flow became available to manifest enough to support the increased cost of living in Hawaii.
其中获得了足够多的创造流来足够展示，以支持居住在夏威夷所增加的费用。
He felt ready to leap upon him and fling him to the ground if he dared to lift the gorgeous hanging that concealed the secret of his life .
要是这家伙敢掀起掩藏着他那生活秘密的华丽帷幔，他就准备扑上前去把他打倒在地。
Meanwhile the student started to shiver with fear, as the tiger was already quite close, ready to make a leap at them.
而此时，学生开始吓得发抖，因为老虎已经逼近，准备扑向他们。
Anything that I don't understand, where I have to make the leap myself in my own head, is going to stop the flow of the presentation.
任何让我不理解。任何让我需要我自己去猜测的，都会让这个演讲不流畅。
Then, when you least expect it, a WIG will leap out of nowhere and overwhelm you in one breathtaking burst.
然后，在你最意料不到的时候，一个WIG不知道从哪里就跳了出来，以一次惊人的爆发扑面而来。
In terms of its intellectual presuppositions it's not a quantum leap, it's just a very clever engineering solution.
在其知识产权的前提，它不是一个质的飞跃，它只是一个非常聪明的工程解决方案。
As always, faith is something of an irrational leap in the dark, a gift of God.
信仰总是飞跃黑暗的一种非理性的方式，是上帝的礼物。
Clearly America had won, and this was one giant leap not for mankind but for the U. S.
显然是美国赢了，这并不是人类的，而是美国人的巨大进步。
Mankind, it seems, was just unlucky that this virus made the leap across the species barrier.
似乎这种病毒得以跨越物种的障碍传染到人类身上仅仅是出于人类的不幸。
