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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were forced to bestride sharp peaks and leap over chasms so deep that they did not dare to look down them.
-- he added as the Indian that moment leveled two enormous beasts who endeavored to leap across the barrier of flames.
-- An hour afterward Robert was the first to leap on board the DUNCAN.
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then shall some braggart Trojan leap upon your tomb and say, 'Ever thus may Agamemnon wreak his vengeance; he brought his army in vain; he is gone home to his own land with empty ships, and has left Menelaus behind him.'
-- I am at sea, and without sure counsel; my heart beats as though it would leap out of my body, and my limbs fail me.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They saw someone whisk round the corner towards the road, and Mr. Huxter executing a complicated leap in the air that ended on his face and shoulder.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.
-- One black shadow seemed to leap into another.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The panther may get into snares set by the women; but he is strong, and knows how to leap through them.'
-- She called him the 'panther of his tribe"; and described him as one whose moccasin left no trail on the dews; whose bound was like the leap of a young fawn; whose eye was brighter than a star in the dark night; and whose voice, in battle, was loud as the thunder of the Manitou.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see him leap and run and pursue me over hedge and ditch was the worst of nightmares.
-- My eyes turned instinctively in that direction, and I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a delicacy, almost a beauty in all her form, and at the same time a certain attractive grossness of spirit, that made a little spark leap instantly alight in Gerald's eyes.
-- She realised how all her life she had been drawing nearer and nearer to this brink, where there was no beyond, from which one had to leap like Sappho into the unknown.
-- She was startled, she seemed to leap clear of him.
-- But they felt powerful enough to leap over the confines of life into the forbidden places, and back again.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, you must allow me to leap over some three years; during that space Mrs. Earnshaw No, no, I'll allow nothing of the sort!Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
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