leaf

英 [liːf] 美 [liːf]

• n. 页；叶；金属薄片
• v. 长叶；翻页

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]叶子

   one of the parts of a plant, growing from a stem or branch or directly from the root

2. [C]页

   sheet of paper

3. [C]金属薄片,金箔

   metal, especially gold or silver, in the form of very thin sheets

4. [C]折面或活面

   hinged flap or detachable section used to extend a table-top

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 叶，叶子
2. 箔，金属薄片
3. 一张（两面）
4. 页扇
5. 页，一页
6. 活动面板
7. 花瓣
8. 活动桌板，折叠桌板
9. 茶叶
10. 烟叶
11. 休假

v. 动词

1. 生叶片，长叶
2. 翻（书页）
3. 翻看，翻阅
4. 浏览，尤指快速翻阅或浏览（与through连用）
5. 带叶（常与out连用）

英英释义

Noun:

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)

Verb:

1. look through a book or other written material;

   "He thumbed through the report"
   "She leafed through the volume"
   

2. turn over pages;

   "leaf through a book"
   "leaf a manuscript"
   

3. produce leaves, of plants

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. I saw him take a leaf out of the book.
   我看见他从书上撕下一页。
2. The falling leaf spiralled to the ground.
   落叶盘旋著飘到了地上。
3. Not a leaf nor an insect stirred.
   不单是树叶，连个虫子都不动。
4. This plant has green leaves throughout the year.
   这种植物终年常青。
5. There was a layer of silver leaf outside the metal.
   金属外边有一层银薄膜。

用作动词 (v.)

1. The trees are just beginning to leaf.
   树刚刚开始长叶子。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. Leaves fell off.
   叶子落了。
2. The leaves turn brown in autumn.
   树叶在秋天变成褐色。
3. It was autumn and the leaves were yellow.
   已经是秋天了,树叶变黄了。
4. I took away the leaves in the gutters.
   我清除了檐槽中的树叶。
5. The wind became furious, tearing leaves off trees, carrying great volumes of dust before it.
   风变得狂暴起来,把树叶纷纷吹落在地,刮起大量尘土。
6. They live in a frail shelter of leaves.
   他们居住在一个用树叶搭成的不结实的棚子里。
7. Several leaves had been torn out of the novel.
   这本小说已被撕掉了几页。
8. Slowly, she turned the leaves of the beautiful old book.
   她慢慢地翻动那本漂亮的旧书的书页。
9. They needed three gold leaves.
   他们需要三张金箔。
10. We put two extra leaves in the table for the dinner.
    为了这次晚宴,我们给餐桌上加了两块活动面板。
11. Pull out both leaves of the table.
    把桌子的两块活动面板都拉出来。

经典引文

• I was shaking like an aspen leaf.

  出自： A. A. Milne

• The stacked-up, wet beech leaves slowly turning to compost.

  出自： V. S. Naipaul

• One tattered old magazine, the sort of thing you leaf through at the dentist.

  出自： D. Lessing

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

come into〔be〕 in leaf

长叶子,生满叶的,绿叶满枝的 grow leaves;being covered with leaves

take a leaf from〔out of〕 sb's book

以某人为榜样 copy sb;act or behave in a similar way to sb

turn over a new leaf

掀开新的一页,重新开始,改过自新 begin a new course of improved behaviour, habits, etc.

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• blow off the leaf 把树叶吹落
• burst into leaf 长叶
• come into leaf 吐出新叶
• drop leaf 落叶
• lose leaf 落叶
• pick leaf 摘叶
• sweep up dead leaves 扫掉枯叶
• take a leaf from sb's book 仿效某人
• turn a new leaf 翻开新的一页,揭开新篇章
• turn over a new leaf 洗心革面,重新开始

形容词+～

• brown leaf 褐色的叶子
• dancing leaf 舞动的叶子
• dead leaf 枯死的叶子
• dry leaf 干枯的叶子
• fallen leaf 落叶
• green leaf 绿叶
• red leaf 红叶
• yellow leaf 黄叶
• young leaf 嫩叶

名词+～

• autumn leaf 秋叶
• cabbage leaves 洋白菜叶
• gold leaf 金箔
• rose leaf 玫瑰叶
• tea leaf 茶叶
• tobacco leaf 烟叶

介词+～

• in leaf 有叶
• in full leaf 长满叶子

～+介词

• leaves from trees 树叶
• leaves on trees 树上的叶子

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. leaf的基本意思是“树叶”,指生长于植物的枝杈之上的植物的一部分;也可指书本的一“页”或桌子的“折面或活面”。leaf还可指一种特殊的“金属薄片,金箔”。
2. leaves作“树叶”解时,其后可接on来表示“在树上的叶子”,而不接of。
3. come into leaf和in leaf中的leaf都用单数形式。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的leaf，意为植物的叶子，书页。

近反义词

【近义词】

• folio 对开本
• foliage 叶子(总称)
• frond 蕨叶
• page 页
• sheet 被单
• coating 涂层
• foil 钝头剑
• plate 碟
• flap 拍打
• lamina 薄板
• thumb 拇指
• greenery 绿树
• riffle 急流
• sprig 小树枝
• spray 喷雾
• side 边
• film 电影
• insert 插入
• foldout 插页
• projection 投影
• index 指数
• blade 刀刃
• section 部分
• folium 叶形线
• flyleaf 扉页
• errata 正误表
• leaflet 小叶
• bud 芽
• piece 件
• foliate 叶状的
• needle 针
• turn 翻转
• cover 封面
• foliation 生叶
• foliature <罕>=foliage
• scale 刻度
• flora 植物
• frondescence (植物的)发叶状态...
• layer 层
• lamination 制成薄板
• covering 覆盖物
• slice 薄片
• overlay 覆盖
• lamella 薄片
• veneer 薄片镶饰
• flake 薄片
• over 在 ... 的上方...
• turn over 滚动
• flip 掷
• flick 快速的轻打
• leafage 叶子
• riff 即兴重复段