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retrace

/ri-treys/US // rɪˈtreɪs //UK // (rɪˈtreɪs) //

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    re·traced, re·trac·ing.

    • : to trace backward; go back over: to retrace one's steps.
    • : to go back over with the memory.
    • : to go over again with the sight or attention.
    • : re-trace.

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Examples

  • Everything users do through the interface, which uses Palantir’s GovCloud platform, is carefully preserved, so anyone with access can retrace their steps.

  • Almost 20 years ago, Eric Sheppard picked up the slave narrative written by his distant ancestor, Moses Grandy, and set out to retrace his long trudge to freedom.

  • When turning off a path, we often take a special look around the crucial spot so we can retrace our steps.

  • Evidence of an infection that has already cleared can also help researchers retrace a virus’s steps.

  • Technology offered a way to automate time-honored contact tracing efforts in which public health investigators ask patients to retrace their footsteps in order to deduce where they got infected.

  • "To R——," replied the man, as he turned silently and sullenly to retrace his steps.

  • "I don't care to retrace all of mine," said Mr. Bradford, whose pale face wore a smile beneath its bandage.

  • Then, slowly, she began to retrace her steps toward the corner from which she had started.

  • Whatever it was, we thought it prudent to retrace our steps, and went down to the sea again by the same path.

  • But we must now leave the king, and retrace history to the commencement of the civil war.