leap的意思|leap的解释-里氏词典

Leap \Leap\, v. t.
1. To pass over by a leap or jump; as, to leap a wall, or a
ditch.

2. To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

3. To cause to leap; as, to leap a horse across a ditch.

Leap \Leap\, n.
1. The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a
jump; a spring; a bound.

Wickedness comes on by degrees, . . . and sudden
leaps from one extreme to another are unnatural.
--L'Estrange.

Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or
glides. --H. Sweet.

2. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.

3. (Mining) A fault.

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

Leap \Leap\, n. [AS. le['a]p.]
1. A basket. [Obs.] --Wyclif.

2. A weel or wicker trap for fish. [Prov. Eng.]

Leap \Leap\ (l[=e]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Leaped} (l[=e]pt;
277), rarely {Leapt} (l[=e]pt or l[e^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Leaping}.] [OE. lepen, leapen, AS. hle['a]pan to leap, jump,
run; akin to OS. [=a]hl[=o]pan, OFries. hlapa, D. loopen, G.
laufen, OHG. louffan, hlauffan, Icel. hlaupa, Sw. l["o]pa,
Dan. l["o]be, Goth. ushlaupan. Cf. {Elope}, {Lope},
{Lapwing}, {Loaf} to loiter.]
1. To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to
vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a
horse. --Bacon.

Leap in with me into this angry flood. --Shak.

2. To spring or move suddenly, as by a jump or by jumps; to
bound; to move swiftly. Also Fig.

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky. --Wordsworth.

But that is where optimism about the new law within Egypt's nascent financial services industry largely ends. 'In comparison to what we had, it's a huge leap forward,' says Mr Ahmed Foda, managing director of Investments & Securities Group in Cairo.
After the candidates have sparred, reporters leap from their TV monitors into "Spin Valley," a corridor lined with TV cameras where aides descend to tell us what really happened.
The company's ratio of debt to total capitalization would leap to 70% from 29% if the restructuring goes through, according to Phua K. Young, an analyst with Shearson Lehman Hutton.
Over the years the rotation of the Earth has tended to slow down somewhat, and thus all 15 leap seconds needed so far have had to be added to atomic clocks.
"That's a pothole over which I will leap," she said.
George B. Crist told reporters in Manama on June 1 the cruiser's air defense radar could cover the entire gulf and called it a "quantum leap forward" in detering a new Iranian anti-ship missile site nearing completion in the strait.
Beamon topped 28 feet only once, on his record leap.
The publication also has recorded a leap of more than 70 percent in international Communist membership since the early 1970s, when the total was about 50 million.
That's a big jump from 22% of users in 1988, and a huge leap from 1% in 1985, making virus-protection the fastest-growing category of security measure tracked by the NCCCD.
Though they may not notice, many New Yorkers will celebrate the leap second at midnight.
Quebec province, whose 1970s nationalism threatened to turn a beautiful place into a North American Albania, has made an astonishing intellectual forward leap toward market-driven development.
Once the plane stopped, Shanhan said she whipped open the door and began ordering the passengers to form double lines and leap onto the slide.
But, he says, "The leap of faith is that Occidental is in many ways as much a chemical company, as much an oil company, and the question is how much gain the chemicals business can get from an economic recovery." Some reach a different conclusion.
The average had continued to roll ahead last week after the industrial average ran out of steam following last Tuesday's 43-point leap to a record.
The Xedos 9 made its debut at the Frankfurt show last September and arrives in Britain early next year. The biggest hurdle Lexus and Xedos have to leap is entirely subjective.
Every year or two, Winkler adds a "leap second" to the atomic clock's time to compensate for a very slow decrease in the Earth's rotation, which is thrown slightly out of kilter by winds, ocean currents, earthquakes and even melting snow.
Trends in public opinion cannot be confined to one country, but leap instantly across borders.
"This takes the restructuring business a quantum leap forward," said Mariel Clemensen, head of Lehman Brothers's junk bond research department.
Just as a leap of two or three feet seems easy when you are only a foot from the ground, the traverse from the Col des Trifides would, elsewhere, be merely awkward. 'I don't like the look of this Olivier,' I said.
Imro's statement to the select committee calls the application a 'substantial hurdle' for prospective investment managers. It is a hurdle few have failed to leap, however.
IF NOTHING else, the voters in Los Angeles have taken a fair-sized leap in the dark by electing Mr Richard Riordan as mayor.
Either you pootle around on the beginner slopes or you go to the other extreme and take a leap into the unknown and try helicopter skiing.
"It takes a leap of faith" to assume that such funds will do well, Mr. Hardy says, given how little experience there is with them.
Whether it can find a new excuse to leap back past Dollars 400 is quite another matter.
Half are imported." Moreover, Melman argues, defense managers are incapable of making the leap without retraining.
Ask the Japanese engineers who now whisper about making the leap to digital even as their analog system is unveiled.
Long-term care for the elderly may be the next big policy leap for the program.
The balance of the common is owned by the two top executives of Kinder-Care Inc., a Montgomery, Ala., concern that has lately been making an unusual leap out of the day-care center business and into financial services.
But it is a huge, difficult leap to the working world for teen-agers from the disadvantaged and often troubled families that live in the housing projects.
When solar activity builds up, it amplifies the lights and makes our studies easier." It took centuries for mankind to discover that solar flares, tongues of fire that leap thousands of miles above the sun's surface, caused the lights.

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