Leaf

(noun.) hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door).

(noun.) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book).

(noun.) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.

(verb.) produce leaves, of plants.

(verb.) turn over pages; 'leaf through a book'; 'leaf a manuscript'.

整理:洛厄尔

• I lightly pushed the heavy leaf; would it yield? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He tore a leaf from his pocket-book, wrote a few words and gave it to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Presently Rose showed her the attention of asking, ere she turned the leaf, Are you ready? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His face was as sharp as a hatchet, and the skin of it was as yellow and dry and withered as an autumn leaf. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Not many an English leaf or berry that I couldn't name. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Amy stood a minute, turning the leaves in her hand, reading on each some sweet rebuke for all heartburnings and uncharitableness of spirit. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Inasmuch as the nitrogen of liquid air evaporates first, and leaves nearly pure liquid oxygen, it may also be employed as a means for producing and applying oxygen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The Jarndyce in question, said the Lord Chancellor, still turning over leaves, is Jarndyce of Bleak House. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• If she leaves no children---- Which she is likely to do? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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