leaping

British English usually uses the form leapt as the past tense and past participle. American English usually uses leaped. 英国英语通常用leapt作过去式和过去分词，美国英语则通常用leaped。


1. VERB 纵身；跳；跃
   If you leap, you jump high in the air or jump a long distance.
   1. He had leapt from a window in the building and escaped...
      他从大楼一个窗口跳出去跑了。
   2. The newsreels show him leaping into the air...
      新闻短片里有他跳向空中的画面。
   3. The man threw his arms out as he leapt.
      该男子张开双臂，纵身一跳。
   4. Leap is also a noun.
      
   5. Smith took Britain's fifth medal of the championships with a leap of 2.37 metres.
      史密斯跳出2.37米的成绩，为英国夺得锦标赛的第5枚奖牌。
2. VERB 迅捷地移动
   If you leap somewhere, you move there suddenly and quickly.
   1. The two men leaped into the jeep and roared off...
      两名男子跳上吉普车，疾驰而去。
   2. With a terrible howl, he leapt forward and threw himself into the water.
      他狂吼一声，向前猛冲，纵身跳进水中。
3. VERB （车辆）飞奔，疾驶
   If a vehicle leaps somewhere, it moves there in a short sudden movement.
   1. The car leapt forward.
      汽车向前飞驰。
4. N-COUNT 骤变；激增；飞跃
   A leap is a large and important change, increase, or advance.
   1. The result has been a giant leap in productivity.
      其结果是生产力的大幅提高。
   2. ...the leap in the unemployed from 35,000 to 75,000...
      由35,000猛增至75,000的失业人数
   3. Contemporary art has taken a huge leap forward in the last five or six years.
      当代艺术在过去五六年间突飞猛进。
5. VERB 骤变；激增；飞跃
   If you leap to a particular place or position, you make a large and important change, increase, or advance.
   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。
6. VERB （因吃惊、害怕、高兴等心脏）猛地跳动
   If you say that your heart leaps, you mean that you experience a sudden, very strong feeling of surprise, fear, or happiness.
   1. My heart leaped at the sight of her.
      我见到她时心都要跳出来了。
7. VERB 赶紧抓住（机会）
   If you leap at a chance or opportunity, you accept it quickly and eagerly.
   1. The post of principal of the theatre school became vacant and he leapt at the chance.
      戏剧学校校长一职出缺，他马上抓住了这个机会。
8. PHRASE （改善或增长）非常迅速地，飞跃地
   You can use in leaps and bounds or by leaps and bounds to emphasize that someone or something is improving or increasing quickly and greatly.
   1. He's improved in leaps and bounds this season...
      他今季的表现一日千里。
   2. The total number of species on the planet appears to be growing by leaps and bounds.
      地球上的物种数目似乎正飞速增长。
9. PHRASE 冒险举动；瞎闯
   If you take a leap in the dark or a leap into the unknown, you do something without having any previous experience in that activity or knowledge of it.
   1. 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。
   2. Once more he's making a leap into the unknown without a plan.
      他再次毫无计划地乱闯。

1. The dogs were leaping and growling at the full stretch of their chains.
   那些狗又蹦又叫，把链子绷得紧紧的。
2. She learnt to hurdle by leaping over bales of hay on her family's farm.
   她通过在自家农场里跳跨干草捆学会了跨栏。
3. The newsreels show him leaping into the air
   新闻短片里有他跳向空中的画面。
4. The previously-unknown insect was found leaping around in undergrowth inside the Table Mountain National Park near Cape Town.
   这种在之前从未被人类所知的生物是在南非开普敦的桌山国家公园的灌木丛中所发现的。
5. "All the better to eat you," he said leaping after her.
   “要吃掉你什么都好多了，”他靠在她后面说。
6. He stood up. His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird.
   哈利站了起来，心像一只疯狂的小鸟，猛烈地撞击着他的胸肋。
7. Any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping.
   任何一种不同的老式的乡村舞蹈包括踢和跳。
8. The strategy of catching-up by leaping is decided by technology and personal capital.
   内容提要“跨越式赶超战略”受到技术水平和人力资本的约束。
9. Other currency managers have been more opportunistic, leaping on trends driven by economic factors.
   其他外汇经理则表现出更多的机会主义，它们抓住了经济因素推动的趋势。
10. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and leaping and still laughing.
    随后，她从楼梯上走下来，向大门外跑，一面跑，一面跳，笑个不停。
11. Informatization is a essential way to drive textile machinery manufacturing enterprises to achieve leaping development.
    信息化是带动纺织机械制造企业实现跨跃式发展的根本途径。
12. A group of people silhouetted against a background of leaping flames.
    以跳跃的火焰为背景的一群人的侧面影像。
13. A graph of cash held over time would look like a sawtooth, regularly leaping up and sloping down.
    一段时间内持有现金数额的曲线，会像锯齿一样，有规律地上升和下降。
14. Study on Flood Classification Based on Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm and Projection Pursuit Model
    混合蛙跳算法和投影寻踪模型的洪水分类研究
15. Small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs.
    善于跳跃的小昆虫，吸食树枝和末梢的汁液。
16. Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.
    一个想象中存在而从未得到充分实现的地方，终于在这儿一跃而为活生生的现实了。
17. This paper describes the0/ 1 knapsack problem, a mathematical model, and explains the basic theory of shuffled frog leaping algorithm.
    描述了0／1背包问题的数学模型，阐述了混合蛙跳算法的基本理论。
18. Jack: By the way, is this the road to Tiger Leaping Gorge?
    杰克：顺便问一下，这条路是去虎跳峡的吗？
19. The act of leaping; a jump.
    跳动；跳跃的；大的。
20. She is lamed, leaping over a stile.
    她瘸了，只能跳跃。
21. The bird circled again. This time Santiago saw tuna leaping in the sunlight.
    这只猛禽又在盘旋了，这次桑提亚哥瞧见金枪鱼在太阳光下跃起。
22. The leaping flame swallowed it all, making the initiate free and pure.
    跳跃的火焰吞咽了这一切，让启迪变得自由和纯洁。
23. He has an athletic build, good speed, good leaping skills.
    他有很好的运动身材，很好的速度，很好的跳跃技巧。
24. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species.
    多种无尾、矮胖身体的两栖动物，后肢长适于跳跃；半水栖和陆栖种类。
25. Not far from the city are the snowy Yulong Mountain and the Tiger Leaping gorge.
    离城不远处有玉龙雪山和虎跳峡。
26. Meanwhile, we wish IT elites thriving in their own fields, just like Dragons Rising and Tigers Leaping!
    同时，祝愿IT精英们在各自的领域里龙腾虎跃，祝愿山东与全国的科技事业蒸蒸日上！
27. From the crawling ant to the leaping antelope.
    包括爬行的蚂蚁和跳跃的羚羊。
28. But it is full of heart, leaping two feet out of the water.
    但它充满了心，跨越了两英尺的水。
29. The whole sea is full of golden eyes, all leaping.
    满海全是金眼睛，全在跳跃。

noun

1. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards

   Synonym:    leapspringsaltationboundbounce