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词汇 by leaps and bounds
释义
Idiom
by leaps and bounds
Theme: SPEED
rapidly; by large movements forward. (Fixed order.)
Our garden is growing by leaps and bounds.The profits of my company are increasing by leaps and bounds.
Idiom
by leaps and boundsby/in leaps and bounds
if progress or growth happens in leaps and bounds, it happens very quickly.
Ashley's reading has come on in leaps and bounds since she's been at her new school.Leaders of the organization say their membership is growing by leaps and bounds.

by leaps and bounds

By very large degrees; rapidly or in quick progress forward. Our small company has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past year, thanks in no small part to our aggressive new marketing campaign. What was once a tiny local choir club has expanded by leaps and bounds over the years, becoming one of the state's largest organized choir communities.

by leaps and bounds

Fig. rapidly; by large movements forward. The brush we cut back last fall is growing by leaps and bounds. The profits of my company are increasing by leaps and bounds. He is gaining by leaps and bounds.

by leaps and bounds

Rapidly, or in fast progress, as in The corn is growing by leaps and bounds, or School enrollment is increasing by leaps and bounds. This term is a redundancy, since leap and bound both mean "spring" or "jump," but the two words have been paired since Shakespeare's time and are still so used.

by leaps and bounds

with startlingly rapid progress.

by/in ˌleaps and ˈbounds

in large amounts or very quickly: My knowledge of German increased by leaps and bounds when I lived in Germany for a year.Production is going up in leaps and bounds. OPPOSITE: step by step

by leaps and bounds

Very quickly: growing by leaps and bounds.

by leaps and bounds

To make very rapid progress. Since the verb “to bound” means to move by leaps (jumps), the term is tautological. Nevertheless Coleridge (1772–1834) used it in his analysis of poetic meter (Metrical Feet): “With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng.”
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