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词汇 leapfrog
释义 leapfrog
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈliːp.frɒɡ/ us /ˈliːp.frɑːɡ/
a children's game in which a number of children bend down and another child jumps over them one at a time(儿童玩的)跳背游戏
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Children's games
blind man's buff
card game
cold
conker
deck of cards
dingbat
double Dutch
dress-up box
dressing-up box
hide-and-seek
hopscotch
jack
keep (someone/something) away
magnet fishing
pack of cards
painting
painting by numbersidiom
piggyback
ringtoss
warm
leapfrog
verb[ I or T, usually+ adv/prep ]
uk /ˈliːp.frɒɡ/ us /ˈliːp.frɑːɡ/-gg-
to improve your position by going past other people quickly or by missing out some stages: 越级提升
They've leapfrogged from third to first place.他们已经从第三位上升到了第一位。
She leapfrogged several older colleagues to get the manager's job.她越过几位年长的同事升到了经理的职位。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making progress and advancing
adaptive evolution
advance the cause
advanced
advancement
age
boom
evolve
evolved
flourish
flower
formatively
from A to Bidiom
journey
mature
punctuated equilibrium
rebuild
regenerate
ripen
ripeness
spread

leapfrog | American Dictionary


leapfrog
noun[ U ]
us/ˈlipˌfrɔɡ, -frɑɡ/
a children’s game in which each player jumps over another who is bending over
leapfrog
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈlipˌfrɔɡ, -frɑɡ/-gg-
to improve your position by moving quickly past or over something that blocks your way:
[ T ]We’re going to leapfrog the rest of the market in technology.

leapfrog | Business English


leapfrog
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈliːpfrɒɡ/ us /-frɑːɡ/-gg-
to improve a position by going past others quickly or by missing some stages of an activity or process:
leapfrog ahead of sb/sthWhat can we do in the UK to ensure that we leapfrog ahead of the US and Japan?
leapfrog sb/sthHe will try to leapfrog all of his competitors with technology from a company renowned for its 3-D software.
leapfrog over sb/sthShe has leapfrogged over her rivals into one of the three top posts in the organization.

leapfrogging


noun[ U ]
The move aims to limit leapfrogging in pay awards.

Examples of leapfrog


leapfrog
When the glide is deleted, the weak mora cannot be rehoused in the tonic syllable without leapfrogging over the strong mora and crossing association lines.
Three types of interactions, namely leapfrogging, partial coalescence and coalescence, are studied.
The historicity of the novel is not leapfrogged by authorial selfconsciousness.
Our leapfrogged linear congruential implementation is given below.
Parties refrain from leapfrogging because voter biases force leapfrogging parties to present positions that are significantly more extreme than those of their rivals, and hence are electorally unattractive.
During a sequence of leapfrogging justice extending over five years, the respective duties of sheriffs, marshals, court clerks, federal commissioners, and judges would all become issues of litigation.
During the entire post-war period there are only five occasions (1950, 1951, 1955, 1964 and 1997) in which the parties leapfrog each other.
One of the common ploys of the girl-group repertory is a game of musical leapfrog.
A leapfrog time step is employed with the friction terms evaluated at the 7 - 1 time level.
A discretization for this system can be derived by application of the generalized leapfrog method.
The staggered time grid enables second-order centred differencing without allowing the computational mode associated with the leapfrog method.
Secondly, parties rarely leapfrog each other, and the rare instances of leapfrogging usually involve parties that are contiguous along the left-right dimension.
Because they can summon this information in milliseconds, they can arrive at conclusions that leapfrog over a complex guideline.
With respect to the accuracy of the finite-difference advective terms in conserving volume-averaged energy when used with the leapfrog time differencing, the following check was made.
The other (say, vortex 2) begins to dilate and decelerate, thus allowing the vortex 1 to catch up with it and pass through its interior in a leapfrog motion.
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