"There's this incredible leap of faith, on the part of the singer, where you're just hoping,sort of,beyond hope, that somehow this works,right?

VOA: special.2011.05.09

now, this is a remarkable leap, even beyond the humanism of the greeks, something brand new in the world.

这是一个历史性的飞跃,甚至超越了古希腊的人道主义,当时,这是一种先锋思想

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

There was an intellectual leap that occurred in the seventeenth century and it became very fashionable to talk in terms of probabilities.

也就是说,十七世纪中,诞生了一次智慧的飞跃,用概率来表述成了件很时髦的事

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"The point is, that what we are looking for is not just to continue on the same path, we want to leap into the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Just as soon as we crowded our imagination already with the image of the spear the size of a Norwegian pine, which took a certain imaginative leap on our parts, we realize that Satan and his spear are immeasurably larger even than that.

我们已经对于,那棵已然吸引了我们大量注意力的挪威松木，及和之相比的长矛的大小浮想联翩了，我们意识到撒旦和他的长矛甚至比松木还要广大无边。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"But the next instant Nancy's heart gave a leap.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

What that means is that we identify students who are going to take a big leap, intellectual leap forward in this coming year, a spurt forward in this coming year.

测试能让我们找出,将在新学年在学业上，取得巨大进步的学生，在新学年取得巨大进步。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

"But you did,and I know what an extraordinary leap of faith that is on your part.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The students were brought into this course were in that interesting gap in the professions where they have been with the company for a couple of years but will probably be four more years before they consider for the big leap, for the big advancement.

参与该课程的学生,职业差别很大,他们还会在,现在的公司待几年,甚至可能在考虑,跳槽或升迁之前，再待四年之久。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

VOA: standard.other

But no one dared say we have this little planetary model, I've got an electron orbiting a central nucleus and I am going to endow that electron with quantized states That was a big leap and that was Bohr in postulate five Postulate five I am just going to reproduce.

但是没有人敢说,我们拥有了这个小行星模型，知道了电子绕原子核运行,现在就要让它使电子处于量化的状态,假设五中波尔的成就是一个跳跃式的进步,假设五中我只需要重申一些东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Algenol is already testing the process with 40 bioreactors in Florida, but the partnership with Dow and the U.S.Department of Energy on the Texas project is a major leap forward.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The bad prejudice is when we leap to the conclusion, without thinking for a moment that there might be some other historical horizon, that we know what plastic means.

坏先见就是我们直接得出结论，也没有想一下,可能有其他的历史背景，就觉得我们知道plastic是什么了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Yargeris Savigne of Cuba came out on top in the triple jump with a leap of 14.95 meters, while Spain's Marta Domnguez took the gold medal in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, with a world leading time of 9 minutes,7.32 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.18

How do we do that correction? When I first tried this, I thought, fine I'll multiply by 365/60, but I forgot this is a leap year.

那么怎么换算呢,我第一次试的时候,我想,我乘以365/60,但是我忘了,今年是闰年

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选