Trace

(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'.

录入:雷蒙

• It is a duty we all owe to the poor creature herself to trace her, continued Sir Percival. 威尔基·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. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The reader will excuse me if I conceal the date or any other fact by which he might trace the actual occurrence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• 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·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No trace could be found of the fugitives, and now, on Thursday morning, we are as ignorant as we were on Tuesday. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• But they were generally accompanied by a sense of compunction and self-abasement of which Newland Archer felt no trace. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It _is_ wonderful, replied Wickham, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; and pride had often been his best friend. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• 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·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• 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_. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• She told him how she had traced him, reproached him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• All records had been heretofore traced for visual inspection only. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• Of course I shall be careful to conceal any traces of this interview from Mr and Mrs Boffin, as long as I remain here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A cause traces the way to our thought, and in a manner forces us to survey such certain objects, in such certain relations. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She seemed to be more soured and put out than distressed, by failing to find any traces of her daughter in these parts. 威尔基·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. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• In the great city all traces of them might be most speedily and most surely effaced. 威尔基·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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• As her glasses are of remarkable strength, and as opticians are not very numerous, there should be no difficulty in tracing her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• As a means of tracing him, if he wished to inquire about him from any third person. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• 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. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A pencil point is secured to moving cross-head and marks position of target on ground glass, tracing movement of same thereon. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Well, if our conjecture is correct and the girl's name is or was Sophy Kratides, we should have no difficulty in tracing her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• 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. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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