leap
/ˈliːp/ 名词 B2中文： 跳跃、飞跃、骤变
- The act of leaping or jumping. · He made a leap across the river.· 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A group of leopards.
- A significant move forward.
- A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts. · It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
- A fault.
- Copulation (by a male animal) with a female one.
- A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
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The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright.
With a snappy “Good-morning, Pitcher,” Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him.
The bushes rustled a little in the thicket, and Father Wolf dropped with his haunches under him, ready for his leap.
The proverb you need to go by is ‘Look before you leap’--especially into spare-room beds.”
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