leap是什么意思

leap

英 [liːp] 美 [lip]

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: 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。

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。