trace
v. 跟踪,追踪; 追溯,探索; 查出; 描绘,勾勒
n. 痕迹,踪迹; 微量,极少量; 描记图,轨迹
If you trace the origin or development of something, you find out or describe how it started or developed.
The exhibition traces the history of graphic design in America from the 19th century to the present...
展览追溯了美国从19世纪至今的平面设计历史。
I first went there to trace my roots, visiting my mum's home island of Jamaica…
我最初到那里是为了寻根,探访我妈妈的故乡牙买加岛。
If you trace someone or something, you find them after looking for them.
Police are anxious to trace two men seen leaving the house just before 8am...
早上将近8点时有人看到两名男子离开那所房子,警方急于找到他们。
We are currently trying to trace the whereabouts of certain sums of money…
我们目前正试图找到某些钱款的下落。
If you trace something such as a pattern or a shape, for example with your finger or toe, you mark its outline on a surface.
I traced the course of the river on the map.
我在地图上勾勒出这条河的流向。
If you trace a picture, you copy it by covering it with a piece of transparent paper and drawing over the lines underneath.
She learned to draw by tracing pictures out of old storybooks.
她通过描摹旧故事书上的图画学会了画画。
A trace of something is a very small amount of it.
Wash them in cold water to remove all traces of sand...
用冷水冲洗它们以清除所有的沙子。
He took great pains to write on his subject without a trace of sensationalism.
他尽力不带一丝哗众取宠的色彩来写作他的题材。
A trace is a sign which shows you that someone or something has been in a place.
The local church has traces of fifteenth-century frescoes…
当地教堂仍留有 15 世纪壁画的遗迹。
There's been no trace of my aunt and uncle...
没有我姑姑、姑夫的踪迹。
If you say that someone or something sinks without trace or sinks without a trace, you mean that they stop existing or stop being successful very suddenly and completely.
The Social Democratic Party has sunk without trace at these elections...
社会民主党在这些选举中已销声匿迹。
Pop groups are like Olympic swimmers — they hit gold once, then they sink without trace.
流行乐队就像奥林匹克游泳选手——拿到一次金牌后就无声无息了。
1. a just detectable amount;
2. an indication that something has been present;
3. a suggestion of some quality;
4. drawing created by tracing
5. either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
6. a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
1. follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something;
2. make a mark or lines on a surface;
3. to go back over again;
4. pursue or chase relentlessly;
5. discover traces of;
6. make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along;
7. copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of;
8. read with difficulty;
pursue, follow, chase, hunt, trace, track, trail
这些动词均含"跟随,追踪"之意。
kick over the traces
挣脱羁绊,变得不服从,鲁莽
Put just a trace more salt in my soup.
我的汤里再放一点盐吧! vi,
He has only been able to trace out the outline of the plan, without any details.
他只能提出这一计划的要点, 拿不出任何细节.
Trace an analogy between pastoral poetry and landscape painting.
找出田园诗和风景画之间的相似之处.
Stone does not decay, and so the tools of long ago have remained when even the bones of the men who made them have disappeared without trace.
石头是不腐败的, 因此远古年代的工具至今尚存,即使制造这些工具的人的骨头已经毫无痕迹地消失了.
His father claims to be able to trace the family back to many centuries ago.
他父亲声称能把家世追溯到许多世纪之前.