trail
小路,小径,踪迹,小道
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Definitions
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- : to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
- : to bring or have floating after itself or oneself: a racing car trailing clouds of dust.
- : to follow the track, trail, or scent of; track.
- : to follow along behind, as in a race.
- : to mark out, as a track.
- : to tread down or make a path through.
- : to draw out, as speech; protract.
- : Ceramics. to pour on a biscuit so as to produce a pattern.
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- : to be drawn or dragged along the ground or some other surface, as when hanging from something moving: Her long bridal gown trailed across the floor.
- : to hang down loosely from something.
- : to stream from or float after something moving, as dust, smoke, and sparks do.
- : to follow as if drawn along.
- : to fish by trailing a line from a moving boat; troll.
- : to go slowly, lazily, or wearily along.
- : to pass or extend in a straggling line.
- : to change gradually or wander from a course, so as to become weak, ineffectual, etc.: Her voice trailed off into silence.
- : to arrive or be last: He finally trailed in at 10 o'clock.
- : to be losing in a contest: The home team was trailing 20 to 15.
- : to creep or crawl, as a serpent.
- : to follow a track or scent, as of game.
- : to extend itself in growth along the ground rather than taking root or clinging by tendrils, etc.
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- : a path or track made across a wild region, over rough country, or the like, by the passage of people or animals.
- : the track, scent, or the like, left by an animal, person, or thing, especially as followed by a hunter, hound, or other pursuer.
- : something that is trailed or that trails behind, as the train of a skirt or robe.
- : a stream of dust, smoke, light, people, vehicles, etc., behind something moving.
- : Artillery. the part of a gun carriage that rests on the ground when the piece is unlimbered.
- : Architecture. a running vine, leaf, or tendril ornament, as in a Gothic molding.
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Examples
Once Lazarus has successfully hacked a target and taken control of the money, the group attempts to cover up its trail to throw off investigators.
Nearby, 1,000-acre Cambalache State Forest has eight miles of hiking trails.
Even though it didn’t necessarily take me a long time to do the trail, I still put my life in Portland on pause and set aside this time to do this.
Astronomers are now faced with the possibility that they might lose as much as two-thirds of their data to these satellite trails.
I was born on that mountain, and I’ve spent most of my 44 years riding these trails on my mountain bike and my dirt bike, trail-running, and exploring with my wife and daughters.
Recall how Clinton returned to Arkansas from the campaign trail to preside over the execution of a mentally disabled man.
To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.
Mothers pushed their children's heads down and they sped through town, leaving a trail of machine-gun shells in their wake.
One seemed particularly promising, by a trail with a big pile of natural brush to furnish a screen.
Instead, that trail seems to lead to another Spinal Solutions contractor, Ryan Zavilenski.
No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
If it should ever be my lot to take the Long Trail at short notice, I hope it will be under a blue sky and a blazing sun.
When we got down into the bottom Mac turned aside to the deep-worn trail and glanced sharply down at the ruts.
She had been walking alone with her arms hanging limp, letting her white skirts trail along the dewy path.
By using his walking stick he discovered that they formed a trail to a point in the wall.