2formal the events that happen during a period of time, which often lead to a particular aim or result 〔事物的〕发展轨迹
The decision was certain to affect the trajectory of French politics for some time to come.
这一决定在未来的一段时间里必将影响法国的政治轨迹。
Examples from the Corpus
trajectory• In 1873, however, one was found on a trajectory that brought it in to cross the orbit of Mars.• The spectator is dropped into the picture, with its racing and contradictorytrajectories, like Cary Grant into a Hitchcock plot.• Scrubbing my mouth with my sleeve, I feel the Cathedrallurch beneath me, tilt towards a new trajectory.• There is obviously a vast number of such possibletrajectories.• The postwar family storiessuggest that the family has continued in the same trajectory.• Simulation has been used to predictpopulation changes over a long period of time and for charting space-satellite trajectories.• Neither these, nor a variety of other types of householdfit into the stereotypical trajectory through the life course.• Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his petproject.
Origintrajectory
(1600-1700)Modern Latintrajectoria, from Latintrajectus, past participle of traicere“to cause to cross”, from trans- ( → TRANS-) + jacere“to throw”