| 词汇 | example_english_leap |
| 释义 | Examples of leapThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. She leaps from an architectural monument to a phallocentric world. In this way one goes up the scale gradually instead of in leaps as in the centesimal scale. Options are appraised, rejected or developed, employing simultaneously retrospective and predictive leaps of the imagination. As we correlate the drawings with the model, the scale continually leaps in our imaginations, and we feel teased by the artists. There are indeed relatively giant leaps between the observations made and the conclusion that is deduced. Meanwhile, rates of resource exploitation and consumption leaped ahead even faster than population growth as the industrial model of development was adopted around the world. He argues that it was the evolution of cerebral connectivity that allowed for the huge leaps forward. The basic dimension, then, would be temporal, and experience would be an orderly ensemble of phenomenal leaps and bounds, a time line. The sand leaps in little spurts and whirls. By numbering the sequence we can follow the reader wandering through the picture and see changes of direction, leaps cross space, and so on. A chronological examination of familiar and more neglected scores demonstrates that this evolution proceeded in a series of related progressive stages instead of sudden leaps. Both this and the cabaletta have a jagged melodic contour, alternating stepwise motion with leaps from chest to head register. At times the lack of synchrony in such leaps and bounds is very apparent. Attention should also be drawn to combinations of leaps. He proposed energy shells where electrons didn't radiate, particular values of angular momentum and quantum leaps. He leapt up, stuck the text under some papers, and greeted me with some irritation. Another tempo change ushers in a closing phrase of classical cues based on a tonic triad followed by tonic tones in descending octave leaps. At most levels, many individuals contrived privilege- and statuspreserving leaps from the former to the latter. The intuitive leaps, plus some delightfully contorted metaphors, remind us too much of this work's genesis in a course of lectures. Where the latter is sustained and song-like, the former is characterised by staccato, detaché quavers vigorously arpeggiating up and down through leaps of (mainly) fifths. The left-hand piano part, composed in larger intervals (mostly octave leaps), ascending and descending, further complements the wave-like impression of this passage. While forensic science had leapt ahead on the coattails of new laboratory instrumentation and techniques, dactyloscopy had remained relatively stagnant. His list of examples includes betwixt and between, bits and pieces, and leaps and bounds. When the press got hold of these documents, a scandal erupted, the media leaped to compete for the public's attention, and the drug was pulled. The insect chirped, the birds cried, and the monkeys squealed, leaping from branch to branch. Giant leaps in technology are usually resisted by mainstream housing industry providers. In this respect, the definitional diversity across the various reviews leaves decision makers with some tricky inferential leaps. The voice, leaping and hovering in its highest range, mostly avoids the tonic. The arias offer perhaps the most varied music, melodically and rhythmically, with many wide leaps, and diminished and augmented intervals. He often relies on leaps to make a point. Even more striking is the lack of a sense of urgency that leaps out from this self-description. As in the three-voice works already cited, this voice has occasional wide leaps. With military precision they strode around the courtyard until the entire audience was encircled by a border of leaping -ame. On a related note, there are a number of logical leaps and non-justified extrapolations requiring considerable tolerance from the reader. The metropolis disturbs this profound balance in its citizens and creates leaps leading the subject up and down the scale of empirical intensity. Suddenly the tempo of the running crowd leaps over into the next category of speed - into a rolling baby carriage. The last essay in the collection leaps from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, to the new medium of the film. Between that date and 1770 there were 118 divorce suits ; after that date numbers leapt up, with 786 suits between 1771 and 1830. Instead, what is presented is a brief overview of the most significant historical developments that, at times, leaps over centuries. The literature on nationalism, nations and nation-states has grown by leaps and bounds over the last two decades. Most respondents however performed unanticipated leaps across time, spaces and themes as they worked through the questionnaire. What this gains in concentration of ideas, it loses in overall shape: one has to make disconcerting chronological leaps back and forth between sections. Doing so requires leaps of faith we prefer not to take. All speakers are adept at making the necessary intuitive leaps to arrive at the appropriate messages. They might also be tried in domestic water-barrels and tanks, if means were devised to prevent them from leaping out on to the ground. Loreen enters playing a low sustained tone that leaps a sixth to descend by step. Medical knowledge rarely comes in leaps and bounds. The theory and design of integrated circuits has moved forward in leaps and bounds in recent years. High leaps, running and giant strides end in controlled positions held taut in the lower half of the body. Perhaps such leaps made their work more stimulating. I leaped up with a scream, pulling several layers of skin away from my arm. Although the melody leaps upward a fourth (not a third), the double-dotted rhythm reinforces the connection. Although there had been quantum leaps of mathematical sophistication before in the history of economics, there had never been anything like this. The refrain melody has fewer long melismas, but it is dramatised in another way: by large leaps. The opening four-note motif of the first bar is repeated (with wider leaps) in the second. The slow movement begins with a characteristic long unison theme, majestic despite its wide leaps. He often leapt down from the stage. Over and over again, exaggerated claims were made for programs that supposedly discovered new mathematical theorems, solved complex problems, made scienti®c discoveries, took creative leaps or discovered analogies. The violin, on edge, is forced for the first time into subterranean depths and rhythmically complex figures, leaps and runs as the trombone and tuba pursue it over sullen ground. Though we try to jump the gap between ceramic types and theories of the rise of the state, our leaps lack credibility because there are no connecting models or postulates. Examples include bag and baggage, bits and pieces, leaps and bounds, odds and ends, over and done with, safe and sound and the dim and distant past. Obviously the jump between behavioral models of intact organism actions and neurobiological data on individual circuits remains a large one, often involving at least tentative leaps of faith. He notes that the study of paintings with regard to their relationship with optical devices results in new groupings of works and artists and makes historical leaps that are apposite. When the boy receives his first fine, he leaps over his father's futile hopes and his own naivety, paying up immediately to save himself the trouble of disputing its fairness. Chapter 1 leaps immediately into a review of the universalist approach to phonological development. In the volador ceremony, several individuals, whose feet were tied to long ropes wrapped around a tall pole, leapt off the pole to "fly" in circles as the ropes unwound. The enemy was so frightened when they saw me, that they leaped out of their ships, and swam to shore, where there could not be fewer than thirty thousand souls. Such support aimed to imitate the ability of good human sales assistants to suggest products or accessories which lead to mental leaps in the minds of customers. History rules out more than it rules in, and in most divided societies it creates deposits of distrust that undergird reluctance to take leaps of faith. Between the mid-1850s and the early 1890s, this ®gure leaped upwards to nearly 90 per cent, before dropping back to 57 per cent between 1895 and 1910. He proves himself partly through his enormous physical skills (the stunts, falls and leaps) and partly through his technical proficiency, his ability to get the machines to work for him. One tries to follow the example of the authors in this symposium in not making great leaps of speculative linkage between clinical and ethological observations, but the temptation is excruciating. Through the years, as he leapt back and forth on the stage and thundered out his sermons, life had been draining out of him through the running fistulae. Unable e to contain himself to the regular rhythm of the service he leapt to his feet, crying like a raven and howling like a wolf. Mental leaps: analogy in creative thought. At the present time the expenditure to be faced by ratepayers is mounting by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are living in a time when the tempo of scientific knowledge and discovery is increasing by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall be having these accidents going up by leaps and bounds if this kind of thing is to be allowed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our powers of production are improving by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think he will then find that recruiting, instead of dropping quietly as it has been doing recently, will move up by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Year by year land values are growing by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am perfectly certain that once that country embarks on that policy, you will find friction increasing by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then we made the docks and the trade of the district has increased by leaps and bounds ever since. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one save myself has leaped enthusiastically to its defence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our unemployment is rising by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the ships were likely to be captured, the premium would go up by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since then, largely as a result of that criticism, the probation service has gone ahead by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In about the last ten years it has begun to improve by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Leaping from windows unnecessarily, without fire brigade assistance, is sometimes fatal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In a sense, the cat has leapt out of the bag, and it is biting anybody who will walk by it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His name would have leapt out at anyone who took the trouble to read the minutes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Above all, we must proceed at an evolutionary pace, not with great leaps into the dark. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They should have leapt to provide such a service; they have not done so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I must say that, like performing seals, they leapt forward to the task. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is so wonderful, why is everyone not leaping in to embrace it? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 By the middle of 1940 a small number were in service, and since then their numbers and their quality have increased by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Spitfires and other warlike material was going up by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I apologise to him for having leapt up before him out of order. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Wealth is increasing, people are at work, there is less unemployment, and production is going up by leaps and bounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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