leaf

[li:f]

n.页, 叶, 金属薄片
v.长叶, 翻页

n.

1. 叶子[C]

The trees are thick with leaves.

这些树生长着浓密的树叶。

2. (书籍等的)一张, 一页[C]

He tore a leaf out of his notebook.

他从笔记本上扯下一页。

3. (折叠式桌子的)活动面板[C]

4. (门, 窗等的)页扇[C]

5. (金属的)箔[U]

vt.

匆匆翻阅

He was leafing a magazine.

他正在翻阅一本杂志。

vi.

1. 生叶片, 长叶[(+out)]

The trees on the hill are just leafing out.

山上的树正在长出新叶。

The trees are just beginning to leaf.

树刚刚开始长叶子。

2. 匆匆翻阅[(+through)]

I leafed through the catalog and found nothing interesting.

我翻了翻目录, 没看到什么有趣的东西。

词形变化

名词复数: leaves | 动词过去式: leafed | 动词过去分词: leafed | 动词现在分词: leafing | 动词第三人称单数: leafs |

词义辨析

同义:

n.叶, 瓣

frond  leaflet  folium  blade  needle

n.(总称)叶子

foliage  foliation  foliature  frondescence  flora

n.(书刊等的)一张, 插页, 索引, 勘误

page  sheet  folio  insert  flyleaf  index  errata

n.金属, 薄片, 箔

cover  covering  scale  coating  veneer  overlay  lamination  lamella  lamina  layer  slice  foil  flake

v.生叶, 长叶

bud  foliate

v.翻书页

thumb  turn  turn over  riffle  

同义参见:

flap  plate  page  

英英释义

名词 leaf:

the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants

同义词：leafage, foliage

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

同义词：folio

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

动词 leaf:

look through a book or other written material

同义词：flick, flip, thumb, riffle, riff

turn over pages

produce leaves, of plants

短语词组

come into leaf

1. 长叶

Trees come into leaf in spring.

树木在春天长叶子。

in leaf

1. 生有叶子

The trees will soon be in leaf.

树木很快就会长满叶子。

take a leaf out of sb.'s book

1. 学某人的样

You should take a leaf out of Tom's book.

你应该学学汤姆。

turn over a new leaf

1. 重新开始; 改过自新

He has been very lazy but he is going to turn over a new leaf and work hard.

他以前一直很懒, 但他将改过自新, 努力工作。

补充

leafleaf英:[li:f] 美:[lif]n.1.叶子2.页Several leaves had been torn out of the novel.这本小说已被撕掉了几页。3.金属薄片, 金箔They needed three gold leaves.他们需要三张金箔。

例句

1. In the garden, the leaves of the horse chestnut had already fallen.园子里七叶树的叶子已经落了。 2. The drug itself was not extracted from the leaf until the nineteenth century.这药剂本身直到19世纪才从叶子中提炼出来。 3. The Japanese maple that stands across the drive had just come into leaf.私人车道对面那棵鸡爪枫刚吐新叶。 4. He flattened the wrappers and put them between the leaves of his book.他把包装纸弄平, 夹在书页间。 5. They are encouraging farmers to grow crops other than the coca leaf.他们在鼓励农民种植作物而不是古柯叶。 6. I didn't think about the danger at the time. Afterwards I was shaking like a leaf.当时我没考虑到危险, 事后吓得直发抖。 7. Maybe we should take a leaf out of Branson's book. It's easy to see how he became a billionaire.也许我们应该学学布兰森, 大家都不难看出他是如何成为亿万富翁的。 8. He realized he was in the wrong and promised to turn over a new leaf.他认识到自己错了, 承诺要改过自新。 9. The trees were leafing after the spring rain.春雨过后树在长叶子。 10. She leafed through some old magazines while waiting for her husband.在等她的丈夫时，她翻阅了一些旧杂志。 11. All the trees are leafed out now.树木现在都长出了叶子。 12. I leafed my notes before the final examination.在期末考试前我匆匆地翻了下笔记。 13. the trees are still in leaf.树上还长着叶。 14. [as modifier]leaf tea.叶茶。 15. he leafed through the stack of notes.他翻阅那堆记录。 16. [in combination]purple-leafed dahlias.紫叶大丽花。 17. The trees lose their leaves in autumn.树木在秋天落叶。 18. a maple leaf一片枫树叶 19. a tobacco leaf一片烟草叶 20. tea leaves茶叶 21. I heard the rustle of the autumn leaves.我听到了秋叶瑟瑟作响。 22. a pile of dead leaves一堆枯叶 23. "The trees drop their leaves in the fall, and new leaves grow again in the spring."这些树秋季落叶，春季又长出新叶。 24. "By the end of April, most trees are in leaf. [=most trees have grown their new leaves]"到四月末，树木大多都已长出新叶。 25. The trees have not yet come into leaf.这些树还未长出新叶。 26. I decided to take/borrow a leaf out of his book [=to do the same thing that he did] and invest some money in the stock market.我决定效仿他，把部分资金投入股市。 27. silver leaf银箔 28. I decided to turn over a new leaf and stop worrying so much.我决定以一种全新的方式生活，不再患得患失。 29. The program helps drug addicts to turn over a new leaf when they get out of jail.这项计划帮助吸毒成瘾者出狱后重新做人。 30. leafless trees光秃秃的树木 31. The tree will leaf out in the spring.这棵树在春天会长出新叶。 32. "She was leafing through the magazine, looking at the pictures."她在翻阅杂志，看里面的图片。