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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I banged it a good while with one of my sculls, and at last forced it to leap out of the boat.
-- There was a cow-dung in the path, and I must need try my activity by 152 Gulliver's Travelsattempting to leap over it.
-- But the Houyhnhnms train up their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap over head and ears into a pond or river.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I made very nearly one leap of it--so loud, so fierce was his tone.
-- The islets of Westman appeared to leap from the ocean, being so low in the water as scarcely to be seen until you were right upon them.
-- I fully understood the reason, and again a glimpse of hope ma de my heart leap with joy.
-- "It is not my intention to leap into it head foremost, or even to swim across it, like Leander over the Hellespont.
-- I was the first to leap on the rock.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Connie felt a sudden, strange leap of sym-pathy for him, a leap mingled with compassion, and tinged with repulsion, amounting almost to love.
-- Everywhere the bud-knots and the leap of life!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the occasional leap of a fish, or dip of an oar, or twittering of a bird not yet at roost, or distant barking of a dog, or lowing of a cow in all such sounds, there was the prevailing breath of rest, which seemed to encompass him in every scent that sweetened the fragrant air.
-- The gentleman at once requested her to do him the favour of holding his cloak, took a short run at the narrow window, made a leap at the sill, clung his way up the bricks, and in a moment had his hand at the sash, raising it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Timidly she crept from her lattice, put her hand on Roderigo's shoulder, and was about to leap gracfully down when 'Alas!Alas for Zara!'
-- 'I like good strong words that mean something,' replied Jo, catching her hat as it took a leap off her head preparatory to flying away altogether.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hear I the roaring streams from Pirohitee's peak of spears, when they leap down the crags and drown the villages? The blast!the blast!Up, spine, and meet it!
-- Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on fire.
-- * * * * * The suddenness of the shock made the guns leap in their carriages, and several of the men were shaken out of their hammocks.
-- With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!
-- Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!And for years afterwards, perhaps, ships shun the place; leaping over it as silly sheep leap over a vacuum, because their leader originally leaped there when a stick was held.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He came to the open door, and with one leap he was out into the street.
-- As soon as the Marionette felt his new feet, he gave one leap from the table and started to skip and jump around, as if he had lost his head from very joy.
-- At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows.
-- With one leap he was out of bed and into his clothes.
-- As soon as he set foot on the beach, Pinocchio gave a leap and fell into the water.
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