leap
英 [liːp]
美 [liːp]
- vi. 跳,跳跃
- n. 飞跃;跳跃
- vt. 跳跃,跳过;使跃过
- n. (Leap)人名;(法)莱亚
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。
- leap
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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.
- 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。