leap

英 [li?p] 美[lip]

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復(fù)數(shù):?leaps;第三人稱單數(shù):?leaps;過去式:?leaped;?leapt;過去分詞:?leapt;? leaped;現(xiàn)在分詞:?leaping;

leap 跳躍

來自古英語lepen,跳，詞源同elope,gallop.可能進(jìn)一步來自PIE*klei,彎，轉(zhuǎn)，傾斜，詞源同lean,incline.引申詞義彈跳的姿勢，跳躍。

leap: 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 ?lubuoti ‘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.: 沃里克隊在排名中躥升至第3名，落后領(lǐng)先的埃塞克斯隊31分。

2. The scale of migration took a quantum leap in the early 1970s.: 20世紀(jì)70年代初，移民的規(guī)模驟然擴大。

3. The result has been a giant leap in productivity.: 其結(jié)果是生產(chǎn)力的大幅提高。

4. Prudent people are not going to take a leap in the dark.: 小心謹(jǐn)慎的人是不會輕易冒險的。

5. Once more he's making a leap into the unknown without a plan.: 他再次毫無計劃地亂闖。