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traced

/treys/US // treɪs //UK // (treɪs) //

被追踪的,追踪到的,被追踪,追踪的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige: traces of an advanced civilization among the ruins.
    • : a barely discernible indication or evidence of some quantity, quality, characteristic, expression, etc.: a trace of anger in his tone.
    • : an extremely small amount of some chemical component: a trace of copper in its composition.
    • : traces, the series of footprints left by an animal.
    • : the track left by the passage of a person, animal, or object: the trace of her skates on the ice.
    • : Meteorology. precipitation of less than 0.005 inch.
    • : a trail or path, especially through wild or open territory, made by the passage of people, animals, or vehicles.
    • : engram.
    • : a tracing, drawing, or sketch of something.
    • : a lightly drawn line, as the record drawn by a self-registering instrument.
    • : Mathematics. the intersection of two planes, or of a plane and a surface.the sum of the elements along the principal diagonal of a square matrix.the geometric locus of an equation.
    • : the visible line or lines produced on the screen of a cathode-ray tube by the deflection of the electron beam.
    • : Linguistics. a construct that is phonologically empty but serves to mark the place in the surface structure of a sentence from which a noun phrase has been moved by a transformational operation.
    • : Obsolete. a footprint.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    traced, trac·ing.

    • : to follow the footprints, track, or traces of.
    • : to follow, make out, or determine the course or line of, especially by going backward from the latest evidence, nearest existence, etc.: to trace one's ancestry to the Pilgrims.
    • : to follow.
    • : to follow the course, development, or history of: to trace a political movement.
    • : to ascertain by investigation; find out; discover: The police were unable to trace his whereabouts.
    • : to draw.
    • : to make a plan, diagram, or map of.
    • : to copy by following the lines of the original on a superimposed transparent sheet.
    • : to mark or ornament with lines, figures, etc.
    • : to make an impression or imprinting of.
    • : to print in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.
    • : to put down in writing.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    traced, trac·ing.

    • : to go back in history, ancestry, or origin; date back in time: Her family traces back to Paul Revere.
    • : to follow a course, trail, etc.; make one's way.
    • : to print a record in a curved, broken, or wavy-lined manner.

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Examples

  • SpaceX investigated the issue and found that it was due to some trace amounts of a masking material used to protect engine components making their way into fuel lines.

  • Its pulsating motion effectively removes traces of makeup, dirt, and oil better than fingertips.

  • After a few hard winters, most of the settlers fled and left almost no trace.

  • “The cold traps in these permanent shadows are sort of like garbage collectors,” Haynes says, and every time someone lands on the Moon these pockets become slightly contaminated with traces of human presence like rocket fuel.

  • All sorts of things have happened that have left sort of smell traces.

  • But then, if a clear line of causality could be traced, we wouldn't be talking about Palmer.

  • The majority of the early cases were traced back to unsanitary needles.

  • But ProPublica traced the photograph back to a stock photo company called StockTrek Images.

  • But much can be traced to the expansion of regulatory power.

  • The historians involved have traced the cup back to King Fernando I of Spain (1037-1065).

  • Idly his pen traced upon the paper in front of him a large X, the sign of the unknown quantity.

  • The general traced two lines on the dusty earth, about eight feet apart.

  • The execution is such that the drawing of the gown and the lines of the face seem to have been traced by an engraver's tool.

  • There he had been watching his movements, and traced him, with dreadful suspicion, to the house of Vanboeren.

  • The sound holes may have been traced down and even the upper and lower circular holes bored.