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词汇 leap-of-faith
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a leap of faith


idiom
an act of believing something that is not easily believed: 不易的举动;让人难以置信的做法
It took a big leap of faith to decide to quit my job and try something new.放弃我的工作尝试新的东西的确不是一个容易的决定。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Believing
accept
allegedly
article of faith
ascribe something to something
ascription
belief
delude
deluded
evidently
feel it in your bonesidiom
give credence to something
hold
received
recognize
room
room for doubtidiom
see something in someone/something
seeing is believingidiom
swallow
swear

leap of faith | American Dictionary


leap of faith


idiom
an act of believing something that is not easily believed:
It took a big leap of faith to decide to quit my job and try something new.

Examples of a leap of faith


a leap of faith
We must achieve this leapoffaith for our own human nature.
However, engagement by others in this construct is predicated on a secular leapoffaith or two.
Dealing with this uncertainty will perhaps require instead a large amount of trust in the other parties, and a giant leapoffaith.
However, it requires a great leapoffaith to jump from these results to the conclusion that economic growth on its own will foster environmental improvement automatically.
The others talked about the possibility of doing likewise, although one man used the expression 'leapoffaith' in this context three times during the course of his interview.
We are not faced with food shortages that require us to take that enormous leapoffaith.
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No one has followed that leapoffaith.
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Believing that requires a considerable leapoffaith.
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All sides are making a great leapoffaith.
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Now we are asked for another leapoffaith: another act of trust.
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I was also one of those who believed that it would not possible for it to make that leapoffaith, but it did.
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I hope that over the next few weeks she will be willing to take that leapoffaith, and trust heads and teachers.
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I feel strongly that if we do not say that we will make that leapoffaith now, we may never do it.
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The decision to make a resolution is the "leapoffaith" because the resolution always leads the person forward.
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It took me a number of years to make that leapoffaith, she states when commenting on becoming a full-time writer.
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