Word forms: plural leaves, 3rd person singular present tense leafs, present participle leafing, past tense, past participle leafed
1N-COUNT [usually plural, oft in/intoN]树叶;叶子 The leaves of a tree or plant are the parts that are flat, thin, and usually green. Many trees and plants lose their leaves in the winter and grow new leaves in the spring. 树叶;叶子
In the garden, the leaves of the horse chestnut had already fallen. [+ of]
花园里,七叶树已经落叶了。
The Japanese maple that stands across the drive had just come into leaf.
4PHRASE 师法;效法;以(某人)为榜样 If you take a leaf from someone's book you behave in the same way as them because you want to be like that person or as successful as they are. 师法;效法;以(某人)为榜样
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。
5PHRASE 重新开始;洗心革面;改过自新 If you say that you are going to turn over a new leaf, you mean that you are going to start to behave in a better or more acceptable way. 重新开始;洗心革面;改过自新
He realized he was in the wrong and promised to turn over a new leaf.
6PHRASE [VERB inflects](因寒冷、恐惧等)浑身发抖,抖如落叶 If you say that someone is shaking like a leaf, you mean that their body is shaking a lot, for instance because they are very cold or frightened. (因寒冷、恐惧等)浑身发抖,抖如落叶
I didn't think about the danger at the time. Afterwards I was shaking like a leaf.