tract

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tract /trækt/ noun [countableC]

1. the digestive/reproductive/urinary etc tract HBa system of connected organs that have one main purpose in a part of your body 消化道/生殖道/尿道等

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the digestive/reproductive/urinary etc tract• There may be much urging to urinate, smarting, stinging, burning along the urinary tract.• It is rare, however, for the urinary tract to be affected.• Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.• Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract.• This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.• This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract.• Obstruction covered all mechanical obstruction to the urinary tract, excluding prostatic disease.

2 SGAREAa large area of land 〔土地的〕一大片

vast tracts of woodland

大片大片的林地

3 formalTCN a short piece of writing, especially about a moral or religious subject 〔尤指道德或宗教题材的〕短文，小册子

a tract on the dangers of drink

关于饮酒危害的小册子

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tract• Bible tracts• Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable.• Postmortem examination was carried out in seven patients, and the gastrointestinal tract was fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin.• These histological findings were similar in all parts of the gastrointestinal tract.• As indicated, Spenser was unsuccessful, his tract censored.• There are large tracts of vacant land near the river, which could be used for farming.• Large tracts of the North-East and North Yorkshire are used by the Army for training.• His fame rests on the flurry of tracts he published in his last years, and little is known of his background.• Vast tracts of Brazilian rain forest continue to be cut down every year.

Origin tract

1. (1400-1500) Latin tractus “pulling, extension”, from trahere “to pull”

2. (1400-1500) Latin tractatus “tract”, from tractare; → TRACTABLE

tract noun

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