Sondheim’s book traces the changing nature of the relationship between men and women.
桑德海姆的这本书研究了男女关系性质的变化。
4.copy 复写AVD to copy a drawing, map etc by putting a piece of transparentpaper over it and then drawing the lines you can see through the paper 〔用透明纸在图上〕描摹,描绘► see thesaurus at draw
5with your finger 用手指DRAW to draw real or imaginary lines on the surface of something, usually with your finger or toe 〔用手指或脚趾在物体表面〕画〔线〕;留下〔印迹〕
trace something on/in/across something
Rosie’s fingers traced a delicate pattern in the sand.
His call was traced and half an hour later police arrested him.
他的电话被追踪,半小时后警方就逮捕了他。
—traceableadjectiveadj
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trace• The other student has not been traced.• Police are trying to trace a redvan, which several witnesses reported seeing near the scene of the crime.• The traditiontraces back to medieval Spain.• Philips hired a privatedetective to trace his daughter, who had been missing for two months.• Their ancestry can be traced in the Reading area as far back as 1240.• "Did you draw this yourself?" "No, I traced it."• It has begun tracing lines, through totally vacantspace, between recurrences.• Once again one can trace some continuities of practice with older forms of representation.• Keep him on the line so we can trace the call.• Students will trace the development of labor unions in the U.S.• Nor is the manner in which Mumford traces the historicalroots of this development much different from that of Wittfogel.• The children traced the map of France and then wrote in the names of the places they had visited.• Police are still trying to trace the missing child.• It takes a bit of detective work to trace the symptom back to the cause.• The cash was eventually traced to a prominent Paris lawyer.
trace something (back) to something• Three hundred workpeople trampling about and regularcleaningmeanstraces are going to be destroyed long ago, I would have thought.• The success of the company can be traced to good marketing.• At least 80% greenpatinaremains with enough traces of gilt to show that the overall effect was golden.• If today such spending amounts to roughly two-thirds of all economic activity, we can trace its origin back to the 1920s.• It takes a bit of detective work to trace the symptom back to the cause.• The roots of this new fascination can be traced back to the heart of minimalism.• This effect is traced inpart to the special statusafforded to characters which are introduced through proper names.• Eusebius traces them to the time of the Emperor Trajan, A.D. 98-117.• Some trace their improvement to the unityforged there.
trace something on/in/across something• Jen traced her name in the sand.
5.cart/carriage 大车/马车 [countableC]TTB one of the two pieces of leather, rope etc by which a cart or carriage is fastened to an animal pulling it 〔大车或马车上的〕挽绳
no trace• Dagobert receives no entry in the dictionaries of saints and no trace of him is on public view at Stenay.• But they found no trace of the highly profitableillegalcargo that it was supposed to be carrying.• There is no trace of conceit, arrogance or classconsciousness about her.• There is no result, no trace to mark what you have done.• Hillary Clinton she's not, but there was no trace of the frumpy babushka, below, from 1989.• Moon-Watcher looked across the valley to see if the Others were in sight, but there was no trace of them.• There was no trace of Silk.