trace是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 痕迹， 踪迹； 极少量v. 描绘； 跟踪， 追踪，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and recrossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As I was say-ing ' Her look so discomposed him that he stopped, wan-dered, and began anew: 'As I was saying; if Monsieur Manette had not died; if he had suddenly and silently disappeared; if he had been spirited away; if it had not been difficult to guess to what 32 A tale of two citiesdreadful place, though no art could trace him; if he had an enemy in some compatriot who could exercise a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain; then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.'
-- The resemblance between him and Lucie was very strong at such times, and as they sat side by side, she leaning on his shoulder, and he resting his arm on the back of her chair, it was very agreeable to trace the likeness.
-- It is the case of a shock from which the suffer-er recovered, by a process that he cannot trace himself as I once heard him publicly relate in a striking manner.
-- I see him, fore-most of just 536 A tale of two citiesjudges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigure-ment and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whatever faults Levin had, there was not a trace of hypocrisy in him, and so the children showed him the same friendliness that they saw in their mother's face.
-- All the long day of toil had left no trace in them but lightness of heart.
-- There was no trace of shell, and there was stretched over fully half the sky an even cover of tiny and ever tinier cloudlets.
-- If there were a trace of humanity left in her, she ought not to wish for it herself.
-- One was that the chestnut trace horse, who had been unmistakably overworked on the previous day, was off his feed and out of sorts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the sentiment which this journey might have awakened in him, there was clearly no trace of such a thing; while poor Passepartout existed in perpetual reveries.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was wearing an old and hopelessly ragged black dress coat, with all its buttons missing except one, and that one he had buttoned, evidently clinging to this last trace of respectability.
-- There was no trace left on it, only the wood was still damp.
-- Strange to say, he seemed immediately to have become perfectly calm; not a trace of his recent delirium nor of the panic fear that had haunted him of late.
-- And he ran back to overtake Raskolnikov, but there was no trace of him.
-- Even his depression had passed, there was not a trace now of the energy with which he had set out 'to make an end of it all.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When she was gone, Mr.Peggotty, who had not exhibited a trace of any feeling but theprofoundest sympathy, looked round upon us, and nodding hishead with a lively expression of that sentiment still animating hisface, said in a whisper'She's been thinking of the old 'un!'
-- There is no trace of any, elsewhere.
-- To see her,who had seen Dora but a little while before- to trace the initialletter of Dora's name through her sympathetic pages- to be mademore and more miserable by her- were my only comforts.
-- If I showed any trace ofwhat I felt, my own sorrows were sufficient to account for it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Whether the barn had ever formed one of a group of conventual buildings nobody seemed to be aware; no trace of such surroundings remained.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sylvie saw not a trace of resemblance between this great lady and the girl in her simple morning dress who had entered her kitchen on the occasion of her first visit.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William!
-- The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
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