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词汇 tailing
释义 tailing
present participle oftail
tail
verb[ T ]
uk /teɪl/ us /teɪl/
to follow and watch someone very closely, especially in order to get information secretly: 跟踪(某人),盯(某人)的梢
That car has been tailing me for the last ten minutes.那辆车一直在跟踪我,跟了有10分钟了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to follow someone or something
followFollow me - this way!
tag alongDo you mind if my little brother tags along?
chaseHe was running and the dog was chasing him.
pursueThe robber was pursued by several members of the public.
tailThe car was tailed by police for several hours.
shadowThe police think the robbers shadowed their victims for days before the crime.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Pursuing
be hot on someone's track/trailidiom
be on someone's tailidiom
bear
bear down on someone/something
bring
bring up the rearidiom
convoy
flight
hound
humbug
in hot pursuitidiom
on the scentidiom
pester
pursue
run
stick
tailgate
targetable
track
track and trace

Phrasal verbs


tail back
tail off

Examples of tailing


tailing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Or water might be polluted with tailings and other detritus of mining, making it unsuitable for irrigating crops.
To avoid contamination from the site's industrial past (blue asbestos and foundry tailings) the vegetable garden has raised beds with specially prepared topsoil.
Adjacent to this depression and at an oblique angle from it, there was a small area covered with tailings from the temper-preparation process.
Because the model considers only equilibrium reactions, tailing of the breakthrough curves is not well predicted.
The leading edge is sharp and the following edge shows extensive tailing.
Uranium tailings are a by-product of uranium mining and arise at the site of mining.
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The question of tailings and their storage and disposal is a matter for the uranium mining companies concerned.
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So there is a little tailing-off procedure in the drafting.
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The stabilisation of uranium tailings piles is to cost a total of $745 million, or $30 million per pile.
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The tailing-off of armaments and the defence programme is one of them.
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First we have a recommendation dealing with peat moss, peat moss litter, dust or mould, granulated peat and peat fuel or tailings.
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But they present exactly the same problems as tailings dams resulting from mining operations.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Last year they could keep only what are called tailings.
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Is it not possible to have a similar tailing-off period of seven years for overseas trading corporations?
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Therefore, there has been a plateau and a slight tailing-off in the past six months.
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