【leaf音标】 英[li:f] 美[li:f]
【单词释义】 leaf是什么意思：
n.叶子；页；叶状的结构；[U]金属薄片
vt.&vi.翻书（报）
vi.生叶,长新叶
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] leaves [第三人称单数] leaves
[单词现在分词] leafing
[单词过去式] leafed
[单词过去分词] leafed
【关联词/派生词】
leaflet n.传单，散页印刷品，小册子 v.散发传单
leafy adj.多叶的；叶茂的；多树木的
【leaf形近词/近似词】
overleaf adv. 在（书页等的）背面；在后面
deaf adj.聋的
sheaf n. 捆，束，扎 v. 捆；束；扎
【单词例句】
◇ Lovers pluck off the leaves, and as they pluck each leaf, they ask a question about their lovers; thus? "Does he or she love me?—Ardently? Distractedly? Very much? A little? Not at all?"and so on.
她是这样作的：情人们把她的花瓣一片一片地摘下来，每摘一片情人就问一个关于他们恋人的事情：“热情吗？——痛苦吗？——非常爱我吗？只爱一点吗？——完全不爱吗？”以及诸如此类的问题。
---- The Butterfly
◇ I have learned there is a limited set of answers applicants give in response to this question and one particular answer is so much better than all the others. It leaves me with a much more favorable impression than any of the other answers.
求职者听到这个问题时，有几种回答，其中有一种回答明显优于其它，给我留下更好的印象。
---- Why do you want to work here?
◇ The wind stopped blowing, and outside the castle not a leaf was stirring in the trees.
风也停了，城堡外的树上没有一片叶子在动，所有的一切都沉沉地睡去。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ In the 1500s, English speakers began referring to the seasons separating the cold and warm months as either the fall of the leaf or spring of the leaf, or fall and spring for short.
在16世纪，以英语为母语的人开始用树叶的落下（简称fall）或生长（简称spring）来指代寒热两季之间的几个月。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ From the depths of the canyon comes welling silence. Seldom can you hear the roar of the river.You cannot catch the patter. Like applause, from the leaves of the cottonwoods on the shelf-like plateau below you. For all sounds are swallowed in this gulf of space.
峡谷深处静寂无声。我们很少听见河水的咆哮声或下面壁架式高原上三角叶杨树发出鼓掌般的啪啪声。因为这一切声音都在这深渊的空间被吞没了。
---- The Grand Canyon
◇ The frog jumped out of the water onto a leaf. The king's son gave her the hemp, telling her he'd pick up the spun thread three days later.
青蛙从水中跳出来，落在一片叶子上。小王子把麻交给她，告诉她三天后他会来取纺好的线。
---- The Prince Who Married a Frog
◇ Now when harvest time came the devil appeared and wanted to take away his crop, but he found nothing except the yellow withered leaves, and the happy peasant dug up his turnips.
现在收获的季节到了，魔鬼又来了，要求收回属於他的收成。但除了那些枯黄的败叶外，他一无所获；而农夫却在兴高采烈地挖着他的萝卜。