Trace
[treɪs] or [tres]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree.
(noun.) an indication that something has been present; 'there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim'; 'a tincture of condescension'.
(noun.) a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle.
(noun.) a just detectable amount; 'he speaks French with a trace of an accent'.
(verb.) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; 'We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba' ; 'trace the student's progress'.
(verb.) make a mark or lines on a surface; 'draw a line'; 'trace the outline of a figure in the sand'.
(verb.) copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; 'trace a design'; 'trace a pattern'.
(verb.) make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along; 'The children traced along the edge of the dark forest'; 'The women traced the pasture'.
(verb.) to go back over again; 'we retraced the route we took last summer'; 'trace your path'.
(verb.) discover traces of; 'She traced the circumstances of her birth'.
錄入:雷蒙--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
(v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
(v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
(v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
(v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
(v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
(v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
(v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
(v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
(v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
(v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
伊妮德編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Footprint, footmark, footstep, track, trail, wake.[2]. Mark, sign, token, vestige, record, memorial, remains.
v. a. [1]. Follow (by a track or mark), track, trail.[2]. Delineate, draw, sketch, mark out, trace out.
編輯:梅森
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Explore, track, follow, derive, deduce, thread, investigate, delineate, pursue
ANT:Miss, lose, misinvestigate, misdelineate
康斯坦丁校對
解釋/意思:
n. a mark left: footprint: a small quantity: (fort.) the ground-plan of a work.—v.t. to follow by tracks or footsteps to discover the tracks of to follow step by step to traverse: to follow with exactness: to sketch: to cover with traced lines or tracery.—v.i. to move travel: to dance.—adj. Trace′able that may be traced.—n. Trace′ableness.—adv. Trace′ably.—ns. Trā′cer; Trā′cery ornamentation traced in flowing outline: the beautiful forms in stone with which the arches of Gothic windows are filled for the support of the glass.
n. one of the straps by which a vehicle is drawn.
手打:玛丽安
例句/造句/用法:
- It is a duty we all owe to the poor creature herself to trace her, continued Sir Percival. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If it be analogous, we may hope to explain its causes from analogy, and trace it up to more general principles. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The reader will excuse me if I conceal the date or any other fact by which he might trace the actual occurrence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Here we cannot trace out the tangle of alliances and betrayals that ended in the ascendancy of this Octavian, the adopted heir of Julius C?sar. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No trace could be found of the fugitives, and now, on Thursday morning, we are as ignorant as we were on Tuesday. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It _is_ wonderful, replied Wickham, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; and pride had often been his best friend. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I have been a little hard on her, perhaps, in my own thoughts--I have almost hoped that the loss of the Diamond might be traced to _her_. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Its pioneer form may be traced back to the Middle Ages, when heavy weights were lifted by aid of an apparatus worked by hand power. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- She told him how she had traced him, reproached him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- All records had been heretofore traced for visual inspection only. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The artist then has a limited portion of the wall covered over with a fine sort of plaster, and upon this he traces from his cartoon the part of the design suited for the space. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Of course I shall be careful to conceal any traces of this interview from Mr and Mrs Boffin, as long as I remain here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A cause traces the way to our thought, and in a manner forces us to survey such certain objects, in such certain relations. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She seemed to be more soured and put out than distressed, by failing to find any traces of her daughter in these parts. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I am sure that you cannot fail to be delighted with the traces of heredity shown in the p's and in the tails of the g's. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- In the great city all traces of them might be most speedily and most surely effaced. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- As her glasses are of remarkable strength, and as opticians are not very numerous, there should be no difficulty in tracing her. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- As a means of tracing him, if he wished to inquire about him from any third person. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And now that we know what they are like there is no difficulty in tracing out the sort of life which awaits either of them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- A pencil point is secured to moving cross-head and marks position of target on ground glass, tracing movement of same thereon. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Well, if our conjecture is correct and the girl's name is or was Sophy Kratides, we should have no difficulty in tracing her. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- We pass over Leonardo da Vinci and many others in Italy and elsewhere, whose names should be mentioned if we were tracing this method to its origin. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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