leap

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n. 跳跃, 剧增, 急变, 被越过之物 vi. 跳跃, 突然经过 vt. 跃过, 使跃过

发音

US /ˈliːp/

词形变化

leaps 复数 leaped leapest leapeth leaping leaps 三单 leapt lept leaping 现在分词 leaped 过去式 leapt 过去式 lept 过去式 lope 过去式 leaped 过去分词 leapt 过去分词 lept 过去分词 lope 过去分词 lopen 过去式 lopen 过去分词

别名

leep

教材释义与例句

动词

跳，跳跃

动词

跳跃，跳过；使跃过

释义与例句

n. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    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.

  2. 2.

    The distance traversed by a leap or jump.

  3. 3.

    A group of leopards.

  4. 4.

    A significant move forward.

    比喻
  5. 5.

    A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.

    比喻

    It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.

  6. 6.

    A fault.

    商务 采矿
  7. 7.

    Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

  8. 8.

    A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.

    音乐
  9. 9.

    A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.

  10. 1.

    A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.

  11. 2.

    Half a bushel.

v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To jump.

    跳跃

    飞跃

    不及物

    Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.

    It is better to leap into the void.

  2. 2.

    To pass over by a leap or jump.

    及物

    to leap a wall or a ditch

  3. 3.

    To copulate with (a female beast)

    古体 及物
  4. 4.

    To copulate with (a human)

    古体
  5. 5.

    To cause to leap.

    及物

    to leap a horse across a ditch

adj.
  1. 1.

    Intercalary, bissextile.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

jump spring bound bounce saltation

上位词 5

jump distance increase jumping transition

下位词 6

pounce elevation caper quantum jump capriole quantum leap
动词

同义词 4

jump spring bound jump off

上位词 10

have get make move change cause switch shift stimulate induce

下位词 10

spring bound skip hop burst vault bounce rebound caper ricochet

参见 1

leap out

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English lepen, from Old English hlēapan, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaupan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lope, lowp, elope, gallop, galop, interlope, and loop. Cognate with North Frisian laap, luup, luupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Saterland Frisian lope, loope (“to run”), West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Limburgish loupe (“to jog, run, walk”), Low German lopen, loupen (“to run”), Luxembourgish lafen (“to run”), Vilamovian łaojfa (“to run”), Danish løbe (“to run”), Faroese leypa (“to jump”), Icelandic hlaupa (“to run; to jump”), Norwegian Bokmål løpe (“to run”), Norwegian Nynorsk laupa, laupe, løpa, løpe (“to run”), Swedish löpa (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).

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