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• ① 探寻(…的踪迹),追踪;探索,搜出;探出(小路等)
  • The police are trying to trace his missing wife.警察正在努力探寻他失踪的太太的下落。
  • They succeeded in tracing the Yellow River to its source.他们成功地追溯到黄河的源头。
  • The hunter traced the animal to its den.猎人追踪那只动物到牠的巢穴。

• ② 查出(由来、原因、出处等),探查<back>
  • trace the evolution of man探索人类的进化
  • The car accident can be traced (back) to his carelessness.那件车祸可查出是导因于他的疏忽。
  • He traces his ancestry [family tree] back to the sixteenth century.他把自己的家世[家谱]追溯到十六世纪。

• ③ 1(由其遗迹等)探查出(从前的迹象),发现2探寻(…的轮廓),看出
  • trace the ownership of a car by its license plate由牌照查出车主
  • I could trace the outlines of the lighthouse in the darkness.在阴暗中我能够看出那座灯塔的轮廓。

• ④ 描绘(线、轮廓、地图等),描模;描绘…的图
  • She traced (out) a copy from the picture.她由该图上描模一份副本。

• ⑤ (由上面)顺着写;模画;透写,复写
  • The detective noticed that she had traced the signature of her dead father.刑警发觉她描模了她亡父的签名。

• ⑥ 缓慢[困难]地抄写(文句)