leafing

英 [ˈliːfɪŋ]

美 [ˈliːfɪŋ]

v.  翻…的页，匆匆翻阅
leaf的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• See also:In the garden, the leaves of the horse chestnut had already fallen...The Japanese maple that stands across the drive had just come into leaf.-leaved
• N-COUNT （书）页
  Aleafis one of the pieces of paper of which a book is made.
  1. He flattened the wrappers and put them between the leaves of his book.
     他把包装纸压平，夹在书里。
• PHRASE 师法；效法；以（某人）为榜样
  If youtake a leaf fromsomeone'sbookyou behave in the same way as them because you want to be like that person or as successful as they are.
  1. Maybe we should take a leaf out of Branson's book. It's easy to see how he became a billionaire...
     也许我们应该效法布兰森。我们都不难看出他是怎样成为亿万富翁的。
• PHRASE 重新开始；洗心革面；改过自新
  If you say that you are going toturn over a new leaf, you mean that you are going to start to behave in a better or more acceptable way.
  1. He realized he was in the wrong and promised to turn over a new leaf.
     他认识到自己错了，答应改过自新。
• PHRASE （因寒冷、恐惧等）浑身发抖，抖如落叶
  If you say that someoneis shaking like a leaf, you mean that their body is shaking a lot, for instance because they are very cold or frightened.
  1. I didn't think about the danger at the time. Afterwards I was shaking like a leaf.
     我那时候没想到有危险，事后我吓得直发抖。

英英释义

noun

• (botany) the process of forming leaves
  Synonym:foliation

双语例句

• Looking through the Akashic records is like leafing through an infinite mental photo album.
  察看阿卡西记录就像翻阅一本无限的精神相册一样。
• Turning green; leafing out: overgrown with greening trees and underbrush.
  变成绿色的；生叶的：长满落叶树木和矮灌木的。
• He was leafing a magazine.
  他正在翻阅一本杂志。
• She sat there leafing through a newspaper, watching the door.
  她坐在那里，一边看着门，一边匆匆翻看着报纸。
• This is where after a few minutes in line you'll succumb to the temptation of the candy rack and a magazine you've been leafing through.
  在排队的时候你会忍不住糖果的诱惑。
• I was leafing through an old school magazine when I came across your photo.
  当我匆匆翻阅一本学校旧杂志时，偶然发现了你的照片。
• While leafing through albums of paintings, we might look out of the window or examine the completed and to-be-completed works on the wall.
  我们翻阅画册，但眼睛望着窗外，望着墙上新完成和未完成的作品；
• And now Dean's opponent sat alone in the cottage by the lake, a half-eaten bowl of cereal congealing before him, leafing listlessly through the papers.
  如今迪恩的对手正独自坐在湖边别墅里，漫不经心地翻看报纸，面前吃剩的半碗麦片粥已经变稠了。
• As a travel writer I rarely climb mountains unless there is a cable car handy and, when leafing through brochures that involve trekking in the Himalayas, I wince whenever the words vigorous or strenuous crop up.
  虽然是个旅游作家，但我很少登山，除非缆车唾手可得。在浏览穿越喜马拉雅山脉的宣传册时，只要剧烈或用力这样的字眼蹦出来，我就马上退避三舍。
• Francesca Johnson, a woman walking through after-supper grass and leafing through girlhood dreams, would turn it off.
  弗朗西丝卡.约翰逊，一个走过晚饭后的草地重温少女时代的旧梦的女人，要把它熄灭。