leaf

英 [liːf] 美[lif]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词foliate bud

n. 叶子；（书籍等的）一张；扇页
vi. 生叶；翻书页
vt. 翻…的页，匆匆翻阅
n. (Leaf)人名；(英)利夫

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中文词源

leaf 叶子，书页

来自PIE*leup,剥开，撕下，词源同library,lodge.引申词义撕下的叶子，用以书写的页片。可能进一步来自PIE*skel,切，撕，词源同shell,scale.词义演变比较corium,carnal.

词态变化

复数: leaves;

英文词源

leaf: leaf: [OE] Leaf goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *laubaz, which also produced words for ‘foliage’ in other modern Germanic languages (German laub, Dutch loof, Swedish löf, and Danish løv). It is not known for certain where the Germanic word came from, although a connection has been suggested with Russian lupit’ ‘bark’. It may also lie behind the modern English words lobby and lodge.
=> lobby, lodge
leaf (n.): Old English leaf "leaf of a plant; page of a book," from Proto-Germanic *laubaz (cognates: Old Saxon lof, Old Norse lauf, Old Frisian laf, Dutch loof, Old High German loub, German Laub "foliage, leaves," Gothic lauf), perhaps from PIE *leup- "to peel off, break off" (cognates: Lithuanian luobas, Old Church Slavonic lubu "bark, rind"). Extended 15c. to very thin sheets of metal (especially gold). Meaning "hinged flap on the side of a table" is from 1550s.
leaf (v.): "to turn over (the pages of a book)," 1660s, from leaf (n.). The notion of a book page also is in the phrase to turn over a (new) leaf (1570s). Related: Leafed; leaved; leafing.

双语例句

1. I was shaking all over, trembling like a leaf.: 我像风中的落叶一样浑身发抖。

2. Fortunately, the chore of leaf sweeping is well worth the effort.: 幸运的是，干清扫落叶这个活儿是值得的。

3. Bay leaf is an excellent herb for mackerel.: 干月桂叶是烹制鲭鱼肉极佳的调味料。

4. the cusp of a leaf: 叶尖

5. The trees are just coming into leaf .: 树木正好在长叶子。

英英释意

1. the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

2. a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)

3. hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)

考试真题

Kenya are gathering the tea leaves.

Its leaves are purple and brown.

If you spend a little time digging for the right part-time jobs, you’ll save yourself time when you find a job that leaves you with enough time to get your school work done, too.

He says the market for the tea is unstable and he is often forced to sell his purple tea for the same price as green tea leaves.

They are deprived of chances to turn over a new leaf.

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint ( ' , 印记 ) on you as a person.

At the time, coca leaf extract mixed with wine was a common tonic (滋补品), and Pemberton's sweet brew was a way to get around local laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol.

The "coca" in the name referred to the extracts of coca leaf that the drink's originator, chemist John Pemberton, mixed with his sugary syrup 浆果.

The insect, also known as the tomato leaf miner, devastates crops by feeding on fruits and digging into and moving through stalks.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100, 000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts.

It is like the immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition or exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us.

实用场景例句

lettuce/cabbage/oak leaves: 莴苣 / 卷心菜 / 橡树叶

The trees are just coming into leaf .: 树木正好在长叶子。

the dead leaves of autumn/the fall: 秋天的枯叶

a four-leaf clover: 四叶车轴草

a broad-leaved plant: 阔叶植物

gold leaf: 金箔

In the garden, the leaves of the horse chestnut had already fallen...: 花园里，七叶树已经落叶了。

The Japanese maple that stands across the drive had just come into leaf.: 车道对面那棵鸡爪枫刚吐新叶。

He flattened the wrappers and put them between the leaves of his book.: 他把包装纸压平，夹在书里。

Maybe we should take a leaf out of Branson's book. It's easy to see how he became a billionaire...: 也许我们应该效法布兰森。我们都不难看出他是怎样成为亿万富翁的。

He realized he was in the wrong and promised to turn over a new leaf.: 他认识到自己错了，答应改过自新。

I didn't think about the danger at the time. Afterwards I was shaking like a leaf.: 我那时候没想到有危险，事后我吓得直发抖。

The darkness increased rather than diminished.: 黑暗不仅没有消散,反而格外浓重了.

The leaf is oval in shape.: 叶呈椭圆形.

The fall of one leaf is enough to tell coming of autumn.: 一叶知秋.

He pinched the leaf between his thumb and forefinger.: 他将叶子捏在拇指和食指之间.

The falling leaf spiralled to the ground.: 落叶盘旋着飘到了地上.

Cut the stem cleanly, just beneath a leaf joint.: 把茎切整齐点, 正好切在叶根下.

He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.: 我看见树叶上有一只闪闪发光的绿色甲虫.

He has been in jail several times, but recently he seems to have turned over a new leaf.: 他坐过几次牢, 但近来似乎已改过自新.

Why don't you take a leaf out of Anne's book and have your hair cut shorter?: 你为什么不效法安妮,也把头发剪短些呢 ?

I love this time of year when all the trees are coming into leaf.: 我喜欢一年中的这个时候,所有的树木都在长叶子.

The plane trees have come into leaf.: 这些梧桐树已经长出叶子了.

European countries that took a leaf from American industry's book are now doing very well themselves.: 模仿美国工业的欧洲国家现在经济很发达.

These trees come into leaf in February.: 这些树二月里长叶子.

This sudden warmth is bringing all the trees into leaf.: 天气突然变暖,所有的树都长出了叶子.

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