| 释义 | 
		  [ˈliːf]| For the noun:   | leaf |  | Plural form:  | leaves |  
  WordReference English-Chinese Dictionary © 2019: | 主要翻译 |  leaf,  plural: leaves nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (tree: foliage) | 叶  yè  |  |   |   | 树叶  shù yè  |  |   | The trees lost their leaves early this year because of the frost. |  leaf,  plural: leaves nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (sheet of paper, page) | 张  zhāng |  |   |   | 页  yè |  |   | Ben turned over a leaf in his book and kept reading. |  leaf,  plural: leaves nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (part of table) | 活动桌面  huó dòng zhuō miàn |  |   | When the kids moved out Sam dropped the table leaves to make the dining table smaller. |  |   |  | 其他翻译 |  leaf,  plural: leaves nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (thin sheet of metal) (金属) | 薄片,箔 
  |  |   | The book was decorated with gold leaf. |  | leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (foliage) (总称) | 植物树叶,叶子 
  |  |   | The leaf of the maple tree has three points. |  | leaf⇒ viintransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived."  |  (through book) (随便翻翻) | 翻书页  fān shū yè |  | leaf viintransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived."  |  (grow leaves) (植物) | 长叶子 
  |  |   |   | 生叶 
  |  |   | The trees leafed late because of the long winter. |  
 WordReference English-Chinese Dictionary © 2019: | 动词短语 |  | leaf through [sth] vtr phrasal insepphrasal verb, transitive, inseparable: Verb with adverb(s) or preposition(s), having special meaning, not divisible--for example,"go with" [=combine nicely]: "Those red shoes don't go with my dress." NOT [S]"Those red shoes don't go my dress with."[/S] |  (flip the pages of) | 匆忙浏览  cōng máng liú lǎn |  |   |   | 匆匆翻阅  cōng cōng fān yuè |  |   | I was leafing through an old magazine when the doctor came in. |  
 WordReference English-Chinese Dictionary © 2019: | 复合形式: |  bay leaf,  plural: bay leaves nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (aromatic leaf used in cooking) (调味品) | 月桂叶  yuè guì yè  |  |   | Whenever I make a  casserole, I add a bay leaf from my garden. |  beet greens (US),  beet leaf (UK) nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (leaves of beetroot plant) | 甜菜叶 
  |  | 备注: 'Beet greens' is a plural noun; 'beet leaf' is used with a singular verb form |  |   | I served the meat with a plateful of healthy beet greens. |  beet,  beet leaf,  beetroot leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  UK (beet greens: edible leaf of beet plant) | 甜菜叶 
  |  | fig leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  literal (leaf of a fig tree) (本义) | 无花果树叶  wú huā guǒ shù yè |  |   | A real fig leaf would be too itchy to wear. |  | fig leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  figurative ([sth] that covers [sth] shameful) (比喻,源自《圣经》) | 遮羞布,遮丑布 
  |  | four-leaf clover nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (clover with four leaves) | 四叶苜蓿草  sì yè mù xu cǎo |  |   |   | 四叶草  sì yè cǎo |  |   | I searched the grass for a four-leaf clover. |  | four-leaf clover nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (symbol of good luck) | 幸运草  xìng yùn cǎo |  |   | My dog's been a kind of four-leaf clover to me all his life. |  | gold leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (thin sheet of gold) | 金叶  jīn yè |  |   | It looks like it's solid gold but it's only plaster covered with gold leaf. |  | loose-leaf n as adjnoun as adjective: Describes another noun--for example, "boat race,"  "dogfood." |  (binder: with removable pages) (书) | 散页 
  |  loose-leaf,  loose leaf n as adjnoun as adjective: Describes another noun--for example, "boat race,"  "dogfood." |  (tea: in the form of leaves) (茶) | 散叶 
  |  | maple leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (leaf of hardwood maple tree) | 枫叶  fēng yè |  | maple leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (symbol: emblem of Canada) | [加拿大的象征] 
  |  |   | Canada's symbol is the maple leaf. |  | palm leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (leaf of a palm tree) | 棕榈叶  zōng lǘ yè  |  |   | The gardeners neglected to pick up the cut palm leaves before they left. |  | tea leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  (dried leaf of the tea plant) | 茶叶  chá yè |  |   | Some fortune-tellers use tea leaves to read fortunes. |  | tea leaf nnoun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.  |  UK, regional, slang (thief) (方言,俚语) | 小偷  xiǎo tōu |  
 Collins Chinese Dictionary Plus (3rd edition), 2011: leaf [ li:f] ( pl leaves)  n  [c]1 [of tree, plant] 叶(葉) yè [片 piàn] 2 [ of table] 活动(動)桌板  huódòng zhuōbǎn-  to turn over a new leaf
  翻开(開)新的篇章 fānkāi xīn de piānzhāng 
 -  to take a leaf out of sb's book
  模仿某人 mófǎng mǒurén 
  leaf through vt fus  不可拆分 [+  book, magazine] 翻阅(閱)  fānyuè 在这些条目还发现'leaf': 在英文解释里: bay leaf - beet - blade - blade of grass - bladed - bract - cloverleaf - cotyledon - defoliant - digitalis - ferny - fig leaf - flick - fluttering - foiled - frond - gilding - leaflet - leafstalk - lily pad - limb - litter - maple leaf - midrib - oak - page - palm - palm leaf - palmate - parted - petiole - pine needle - reddish - rib - riffle - sheet of paper - skeleton - spathe - stoma - tea leaf - thumb through - trefoil - vein 中文: 叶 - 叶子 - 页 - 叶柄 - 叶面 - 叶鞘 - 桑叶 - 烟叶 - 绿叶 - 茶叶 - 蒲  |