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单词 leapfrog
释义
leapfrog
noun[U]
uk
/ˈliːp.frɒɡ/us
/ˈliːp.frɑːɡ/
a children'sgamein which anumberofchildrenbenddown and anotherchildjumpsover them one at atime
（儿童玩的）跳背游戏
picture of leapfrog
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Children's games
  • dress-up box
  • dressing-up box
  • follow-my-leader
  • French cricket
  • go fish
  • Hacky Sack
  • hopscotch
  • jack
  • life
  • midget
  • musical chairs
  • painting
  • painting by numbersidiom
  • peekaboo
  • piggy in the middle
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leapfrog
verb[IorT,usually+ adv/prep]
uk
/ˈliːp.frɒɡ/us
/ˈliːp.frɑːɡ/
-gg-
toimproveyourpositionby going past otherpeoplequicklyor bymissingout somestages:
越级提升
They've leapfrogged from third to firstplace.他们已经从第三位上升到了第一位。
She leapfrogged severaloldercolleaguesto get the manager'sjob.她越过几位年长的同事升到了经理的职位。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making progress and advancing
  • advancement
  • age
  • ahead
  • ahead of
  • anti-development
  • carry
  • flourish
  • furtherance
  • gather
  • get beyondsomething
  • get it togetheridiom
  • grow
  • journey
  • mature
  • pan
  • ripen
  • ripeness
  • self-advancement
  • self-betterment
  • self-development
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(Definition ofleapfrogfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

leapfrog| American Dictionary

leapfrog
noun[U]
us
/ˈlipˌfrɔɡ,-frɑɡ/
a children’sgamein which eachplayerjumpsover another who isbendingover
leapfrog
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈlipˌfrɔɡ,-frɑɡ/
-gg-
toimproveyourpositionbymovingquicklypast or over something thatblocksyourway:
[T]We’re going to leapfrog therestof themarketintechnology.
(Definition ofleapfrogfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

leapfrog| Business English

leapfrog
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈliːpfrɒɡ/us
/-frɑːɡ/
-gg-
toimproveapositionby going pastothersquicklyor bymissingsomestagesof anactivityorprocess:
leapfrog ahead of sb/sthWhat can we do in the UK toensurethat we leapfrogaheadof the US and Japan?
leapfrog sb/sthHe willtryto leapfrog all of hiscompetitorswithtechnologyfrom acompanyrenownedforits3-Dsoftware.
leapfrog over sb/sthShe has leapfrogged over herrivalsinto one of the threetoppostsin theorganization.

leapfrogging

noun[U]
Themoveaimstolimitleapfrogging inpayawards.
(Definition ofleapfrogfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofleapfrog

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When the glide is deleted, the weak mora cannot be rehoused in the tonic syllable without leapfrogging over the strong mora and crossing association lines.
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Three types of interactions, namely leapfrogging, partial coalescence and coalescence, are studied.
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The historicity of the novel is not leapfrogged by authorial selfconsciousness.
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Our leapfrogged linear congruential implementation is given below.
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Parties refrain from leapfrogging because voter biases force leapfrogging parties to present positions that are significantly more extreme than those of their rivals, and hence are electorally unattractive.
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During a sequence of leapfrogging justice extending over five years, the respective duties of sheriffs, marshals, court clerks, federal commissioners, and judges would all become issues of litigation.
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During the entire post-war period there are only five occasions (1950, 1951, 1955, 1964 and 1997) in which the partiesleapfrogeach other.
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One of the common ploys of the girl-group repertory is a game of musicalleapfrog.
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Aleapfrogtime step is employed with the friction terms evaluated at the 7 - 1 time level.
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A discretization for this system can be derived by application of the generalizedleapfrogmethod.
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The staggered time grid enables second-order centred differencing without allowing the computational mode associated with theleapfrogmethod.
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Secondly, parties rarelyleapfrogeach other, and the rare instances of leapfrogging usually involve parties that are contiguous along the left-right dimension.
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Because they can summon this information in milliseconds, they can arrive at conclusions thatleapfrogover a complex guideline.
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With respect to the accuracy of the finite-difference advective terms in conserving volume-averaged energy when used with theleapfrogtime differencing, the following check was made.
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The other (say, vortex 2) begins to dilate and decelerate, thus allowing the vortex 1 to catch up with it and pass through its interior in aleapfrogmotion.
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