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quantum leap

质的飞跃,量子跃迁,飞跃,量子化的飞跃

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sudden highly significant advance; breakthrough

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Examples

  • Peter Christopherson made the leap to life on the bandstand and became a pioneer in the industrial music genre.

  • Another common prank was to spin the cannon in the direction of the major, causing him to leap out of the way.

  • Hot orange flames leap into the sky bringing with them the sickening, inescapable stench of death.

  • It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics.

  • He majored in mathematical physics, studying mind-bending theories of quantum mechanics and partial differential equations.

  • She would let him run about for a few moments and then she would leap upon him as if she had nearly lost him.

  • Suddenly his quick eye lit on something in the gravel path and his heart gave a great leap.

  • I sprang forward to leap after her, but hands grasped me and flung me back so violently that I fell down on the platform.

  • This had the effect of causing the fourth lion to break cover and leap upon a rock as the first had done.

  • Thus age and avarice can always over-leap barriers which, to the young and romantic, are insurmountable.