| 词汇 | traced |
| 释义 | traced past simple and past participle oftrace trace verb[ T ] uk /treɪs/ us /treɪs/ traceverb[T] (FIND)C1 to find someone or something that was lost: 找到，查出，发现 The police are trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a hospital.警察试图查出那位把新生婴儿抛弃在医院外面的母亲。 Attempts to trace the whereabouts of a man seen leaving the scene of the crime have so far been unsuccessful.有人曾看到一名男子离开犯罪现场，但迄今为止追查该男子下落的种种努力一无所获。 Their missing daughter was finally traced to(= found in) Manchester.他们失踪的女儿最终在曼彻斯特找到了。 to find someone or something findI've looked everywhere for my keys but can't find them. discoverThe missing wallet was discovered under the chair. locatePolice are still trying to locate the suspect. uncoverReporters uncovered evidence of corruption. unearthOur investigation unearthed mountains of evidence that implicated the city. come acrossWe came across a lovely little restaurant in the village. C1 to find the origin of something: 追查…的来源 The phone company was unable to trace the call.电话公司查不出这个电话来自何处。 No one has yet been able to trace the source of the rumour.还没有人能够查出谣言的出处。 to discover the causes or origins of something by examining the way in which it has developed: （根据事物的发展方式）查明…的起因（或源头），追溯 The outbreak of food poisoning was traced to some contaminated shellfish.经调查，这次食物中毒源于一些受到污染的贝类。 She has traced her family history back to the seventeenth century.她把家族历史追溯到了十七世纪。 The practice of giving eggs at Easter can be traced back to(= first happened in) festivals in ancient China.复活节送彩蛋的习俗可追溯至中国古代的节庆活动。 to describe the way in which something has developed: 描绘…的发展方式 The film traces the events leading up to the Russian Revolution in 1917.该影片描述了导致1917年俄国革命爆发的一系列事件。 The city of Tours can trace its roots back to Roman times.图尔城的历史可以追溯到古罗马时代。 The new system can trace a phone call in a fraction of a second.新系统可以极快地查出来电号码。 He has traced his family back to Norman times. We are trying to trace everyone who spoke to her that day. Police are trying to trace a man in connection with the murder. Finding and discovering ascertain break (fresh/new) groundidiom breakthrough bring something to lightidiom catch someone red-handedidiom fossick found geocache geocaching get hold ofidiom pinpoint plumb rake rediscover rediscovery refind refound retrievable sniff uncover You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Defining & explaining traceverb[T] (DRAW)to copy a drawing or pattern, etc. by drawing over its lines through a thin piece of transparent paper: （把透明纸覆盖在底样上）描摹 Did you draw this picture yourself, or did you trace it?这幅画是你自己画的，还是你描摹的？ She learned to write her name by tracing out the letters.她通过描摹字母学会了写自己的名字。 to draw a shape by showing the main or outer lines: 勾画出…的轮廓 The child was tracing patterns in/on the sand with a stick.孩子用棍子在沙子上勾画出一个个图案。 Painting, drawing & printing airbrush axonometric brushstroke brushwork chiaroscuro drawn engraving etching face painting foreshorten illustrate painting painting by numbersidiom pentimento picturize re-ink shade sketch stroke texture Examples of tracedtraced In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The growth of the economy is traced over time, taking into account population growth, capital accumulation, and technical change. For many years, these deficiencies were understandable as they were traced to the extended absence of viable models of personality in the field of psychology. The source of the outbreak was traced to an untreated private water supply. The reason is that the total number of interherd contacts that had been traced was very high. Beyond their inherent stylistic significance, the developments traced above probably had an impact on other elements of operatic design. The history of its (non-existent) bishopric was then traced down to the supposed last incumbent in the late eleventh century. Presumably, this difference can be traced to deeper epistemological commitments. Earlier ' exclusions ' of those not living in ' ancient farmsteads ' can be traced back to the fourteenth century. On each stem section, the surface area of bark eaten was traced onto clear adhesive tape wrapped around the stem. These progressive changes, in the order now mentioned, may be traced in all nations, so far as we have any remains of their original history. Nevertheless, the allusion to a spatial setting is an important part of the sound-picture - traced through morphology in the stratified sound layers. The vectors of force can more usefully be traced from problems and solutions to theories and experiments. Can any subcutaneous continuities be traced beyond the obvious differences in argumentation? The point is rather that descriptions have connotations which can themselves be traced to the relevant relations. The critic's reasons, arguments, and beliefs are just epiphenomena that can and should be traced back to their deeper causes. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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