quantum leap
质的飞跃,量子跃迁,飞跃,量子化的飞跃
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- : a sudden highly significant advance; breakthrough
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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.