leap是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 扑向, 欣然接受; n. 跳, 跃，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why did his cold eye glisten, and his heart leap up as they went past.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I could but once take a leap up there, my body might stay here on the steps for what I care.'
-- But the transition from a commonplace nature to one that is richly endowed, demands always a more or less breakneck leap over a certain abyss which yawns threateningly below; and thus must the sudden change with the clerk strike the read-er.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the race began not in the ring, but two hundred yards away from it, and in that part of the course was the first obstacle, a dammed-up stream, seven feet in breadth, which the racers could leap or wade through as they preferred.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he said "a week" Fix felt his heart leap for joy.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He laughed at it, he remembered with professional scorn how foolish were the lay visitors to the laboratory, who believed that sanguinary microbes would leap upon them from the mysterious centrifuge, from the benches, from the air itself.
-- He was to placate voluble voters who came in to complain of everything from the smell of sewer- gas to the midnight beer parties of neighbors; he was to dictate office correspondence to the touchy stenographer, who was not a Working Girl but a Nice Girl Who Was Working; to give publicity to the newspapers; to buy paper-clips and floor-wax and report-blanks at the lowest prices; to assist, in need, the two part-time physicians in the city clinic; to direct the nurses and the two sanitary inspectors; to scold the Garbage Removal Company; to arrest--or at least to jaw at--all public spitters; to leap into a Ford and rush out to tack placards on houses in which were infectious diseases; to keep a learned implacable eye on epidemics from Vladivostok to Patagonia, and to prevent (by methods not very clearly outlined) their coming in to slay the yeomanry and even halt the business activities of Nautilus.
-- Sholtheis wants the place, and Dr. Smith and Yeo would leap at it, but I haven't yet found any of them that are quite Our Own Sort, and I offer it to you!I daresay in a year or two, you will be Director of McGurk Institute!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be better, a thousand times better and wiser to leap into the water and end it all!'
-- He threw down the pillow, but in one instant felt something leap on his chest and dart over his body and down his back under his shirt.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You find me,fallen back, for a spring; and I have every reason to believe that avigorous leap will shortly be the result.'
-- 'This idea of Mrs. Micawber's, my dear Copperfield,' said Mr.Micawber, making his shirt-collar meet in front of his chin, andglancing at me sideways, 'is, in fact, the Leap to which I alluded,when I last had the pleasure of seeing you.'
-- He was so near, thatwith one more of his vigorous strokes he would be clinging to it,-when, a high, green, vast hill-side of water, moving on shoreward,from beyond the ship, he seemed to leap up into it with a mightybound, and the ship was gone!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The leap was an astonishing one.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Instead of taking a leap heroically from the window, she is falling headlong down the staircase," said her most intimate friend, the Duchesse de Langeais.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And his voice!Shewould never forget the leap of her heart as she heard it, as if for the first time, drawling, resonant, musical.
-- His lips traveled to her wrist and she knew he must feel the leap of her pulse as her heart quickened and she tried todraw back her hand.
-- The dark sky became pink and then dull red, and suddenly above the trees, she saw a hugetongue of flame leap high to the heavens.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was as if I had to make up my mind to leap from the top of a high house, or plunge into a great depth of water.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The boar ran after him, but the tailor ran round outside and shut the door behind it, and then the raging beast, which was much too heavy and awkward to leap out of the window, was caught.
-- And when he had said that, two great black cats came with one tremendous leap and sat down on each side of him, and looked savagely at him with their fiery eyes.
-- As they came near the brook they saw something like a large grasshopper jumping towards the water, as if it were going to leap in.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates advancing, one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep un-der it, backward and forward, several times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed.
-- The riders would leap them over my hand, as I held it on the ground; 40 Gulliver's Travelsand one of the emperor's huntsmen, upon a large courser, took my foot, shoe and all; which was indeed a prodigious leap.
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