| 词组 | leap |
| 释义 | leap noun 1. a big jumpadjectivesa huge/enormous leap With a huge leap, he managed to catch the ball.a flying leap He threw a stick in the river, and the dog went after it in a flying leap.verbsmake/take a leap Her horse took a leap over the fence.2. a large increase, improvement, or changeadjectivesa big/great/huge/enormous/giant leap When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, he famously said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.a dramatic leap Following her move to Los Angeles, her career in show business took a dramatic leap.a quantum leap (=a very great improvement in something) There has been a quantum leap in our understanding of the disease.a sudden leap A sudden leap in fuel prices has led to an increase in airfares.a technological/technical leap Every ten years, there is a major technological leap in computer science.a mental/conceptual/imaginative leap (=used when something takes a lot of mental effort to understand) The world was so different in those days that you have to make a big mental leap to imagine what it was like.verbsmake/take a leap The company was hoping it could make a technical leap that would give it a clear advantage over its competitors.require a leap Reading his books does require an imaginative leap.prepositionsa leap in sth We weren’t expecting such a big leap in costs.phrasesa leap forward AIDS treatment has made a great leap forward in recent years.in leaps and bounds (=making a lot of progress very quickly) Her English has improved in leaps and bounds. |
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