| 词汇 | trail |
| 释义 | trail noun uk /treɪl/ us /treɪl/ trailnoun (PATH)B2[ C ] a path through a countryside, mountain, or forest area, often made or used for a particular purpose: 乡间（山间或林间等）小道 a forest/mountain trail林间／山间小道 a walking/snowshoeing/cross-country skiing trail步行／雪鞋／越野滑雪道 Image by Chris Winsor/Moment/GettyImages Unusually high winds left a trail of destruction over southern Britain. The storm left behind it a trail of devastation.风暴过后留下一片狼藉。 A narrow trail of blood led directly into the cave.一条细细的血迹一直通到山洞里。 Mind out for falling rocks on this part of the trail.走这段小路时要当心落石。 The trail began to steepen near the top of the hill.小路在接近山顶时开始变陡。 Roads: pedestrian routes alley boardwalk breezeway bridle path car-free cart track esplanade holloway labyrinth ley line mazy nature trail paving paving stone pedestrianize piazza rail trail switchback the highways and bywaysidiom towpath trailnoun (SIGNS)C2[ C ] the smell or series of marks left by a person, animal, or thing as it moves along: 臭迹;踪迹;痕迹 follow a trailThe dogs are trained to follow the trail left by the fox.这些狗经过特别的训练，能够追踪狐狸留下的气味。 leave a trail ofHe left a trail of muddy footprints behind him.他身后留下了一串泥泞的脚印。 [ S ] various pieces of information that together show where someone you are searching for has gone: 蛛丝马迹，线索 leave a trailThe police admit that the robbers have left no trail for them to follow up.警方承认小偷没有留下可供他们追踪的线索。 be on the trail of someone/something to be searching for someone or something by examining information you find about where they went: （循线索）追踪 The three men went to the Bahamas, on the trail of a sunken 17th-century galleon full of treasure.这3个人去了巴哈马，为的是寻找一艘满载金银财宝的17世纪西班牙沉船。 Animal (non-human) behaviour accidental apex predator beg behave behaviour behavioural science claw fawn gambol homing housebroken migrate monogamous monogamously monogamy murmuration nocturnal ravening scent soar You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Pursuing trail verb uk /treɪl/ us /treɪl/ trailverb (MOVE SLOWLY)[ I or T, usually+ adv/prep ] to (allow something to) move slowly along the ground or through the air or water, after someone or something: 拖，拉 trail inKatherine, your skirt's trailing in the mud!凯瑟琳，你的裙子拖在泥里了！ trail something in somethingAs the boat moved along, he trailed his hand in the water.他把手放在了水里，手随船破水而行。 C2[ Iusually+ adv/prep ] to move slowly and without energy or enthusiasm: 行动拖沓;疲惫地走;没精打采地行走 trail backThe delegates trailed back into the conference room for the afternoon session.代表们没精打采地回到会议室，准备开下午的会。 be trailing behindAfter a mile or two the youngest children were trailing behind.走了一两英里后，年龄最小的孩子们无精打采地跟在后面。 Her scarf was trailing on the ground. He is trailing now in the third set of the match. We trailed wearily up the stairs to bed. The cape was trailing in the mud. His team is trailing badly now. Pulling draft drag someone away draw something up haul heave heave-ho heft hitch hitch something up pull at something reel reel something in/out retract retractable suck tow traction wrench wrest yank You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Slow and moving slowly trailverb (IN A COMPETITION/GAME)be trailing C2 to be losing to your competitor in a competition: （比赛中）落后，失败 be trailing byThe Canadian team is trailing by six points.加拿大队落后了6分。 trailverb (FOLLOW)[ T ] to follow the trail of someone or something追踪 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. 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 hound humbug in hot pursuitidiom on the scentidiom pester pursue run stick tag tailgate targetable track track and trace You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Hunting & fishing Phrasal verbtrail away/off trail | American Dictionarytrail noun[ C ] us/treɪl/ trailnoun[C] (PATH)a path through the countryside, often made or used for a particular purpose: a bike/mountain/nature trail fig. Presidential candidates were on the campaign trail in Mississippi yesterday. A trail is also a series of marks left by a person, animal, or thing as it moves along: The kids left a trail of muddy footprints across the kitchen floor. trail verb[ I/T ] us/treɪl/ trailverb[I/T] (FOLLOW)to follow or come behind: [ T ]Ray trailed Kate up to the porch. [ Ialways+ adv/prep ]A string of police cars led the president’s limousine and others trailed behind. In a competition, to trail is to be losing to someone: [ I ]Dallas trailed 34-21 with less than seven minutes to play in the football game. [ T ]Bush trailed the governor by only 4 percentage points. [ I ]Though trailing in the polls, she predicted victory. Phrasal verbtrail off trail | Business Englishtrail verb uk /treɪl/us [ I or T ] to be less successful than competitors or than expected: This company's shares have left most rivals trailing. Precious-metal stocks trailed, at 124.35. trail behind sthPrices of mortgage-backed securities trailed behind the gains of the Treasury. Internet access in the U.S. trails Japan when it comes to speed. [ T ] to advertise something before it is available to buy, see, use, etc: The heavily trailed announcements on ISA changes were widely welcomed. The home secretary trailed his new law in an article in a newspaper yesterday. [ I or T ] to happen after or follow something: trail behind sthThe service, free at the point of use, perpetually trails behind demand. History suggests that consumer spending declines usually trail consumer confidence declines by about 3 months. Phrasal verbtrail off trail noun[ C,usually singular ] uk /treɪl/us a series of activities that someone does in order to achieve something: acquisition/campaign/comeback trailThe bank's acquisition trail across the globe might slow a little although it continues to look at potential opportunities. be on/go on/hit the trail to be trying to find, get, or achieve something: He tells candidates to raise money early, before they hit the trail for speeches and handshakes. blaze a/the trail to be the first to do something new: Netscape and Hotmail were both swallowed up after blazing the trail for larger, less agile competitors. I'm not blazing a trail for women, I'm doing this for myself. (hot) on the trail (of sth) very close to finding or achieving something: NPR's reporter is hot on the trail of the story. leave a trail of sth to leave a series or number of things behind you: His company went into liquidation leaving a trail of debts. Over the past 12 months, the company has underperformed the index by over 20%, leaving a trail of disappointed investors. See alsoaudit trail paper trail Examples of trailtrail The motion thus started continued downstream in the form of a pair of trailing vortices. One arose from strong vortex motions near the trailing edge of a device, and the other arose from erratic cross-stream movements of the flow pattern. Individual vintners left almost no direct trails in the government files on the vine louse. Surveys of the foraging trails were done around the activity peaks of each colony. While a 20-km sacbe may have been symbolic, it was also, strictly speaking, very practical: goods move faster on highways than on hiking trails. Collisions will also influence the electron binding energies in the oscillatory potential trailing a fast ion and will therefore have important consequences for electron trapping. Then came jazz and twentieth-century classical music, with folk music trailing behind. Analysis of multi environmental yield trails for testing adaptability of crop genotypes. Behind this front both ionization and electrical conductivity decay to a lower value at the trailing edge of the luminous gas. A study is made of the laminar flow in the neighbourhood of the trailing edge of an aerofoil at incidence. In order to demonstrate this surprising result, let us consider a semi-infinite strip of trailing vortices of width dy. Flags on the experimental points: leading edge; trailing edge. Median predation levels at the four nest sites and in dung on feeding trails ranged from 96 to 100 % of seeds. Since all cells in the chain of the unbound variable are trailed, we will refer to this kind of trailing as deep trailing. Otherwise, the worst that can happen is that the deep trailed arguments of the call become shallow trailed. See all examples of trail These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withtrailtrailThese are words often used in combination with trail. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. bicycle trail The same forest preserve has a bicycletrail that connects to other forest preserves to the south. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. cross-country trail In addition, there are 19km mi of cross-country trails. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. equestrian trail There is a 5.3 mile equestrian trail that can also be used for mountain biking. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with trail |
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