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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose some astonishment was exhibited in my countenance, for Mr. Kirwin hastened to say, 'Imme-diately upon your being taken ill, all the papers that were on your person were brought me, and I examined them that I might discover some trace by which I could send to your relations an account of your misfortune and illness.
-- She looked forward to our union with 235placid contentment, not unmingled with a little fear, which past misfortunes had impressed, that what now appeared certain and tangible happiness might soon dissipate into an airy dream and leave no trace but deep and everlasting re-gret.
-- But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Triumph was written on her face and no trace of shame for her unfilial treatment of Gerald.
-- "If we can just get near to Rough and Ready, I know a wagon trace that windsoff from the main Jonesboro road and wanders around for miles.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet I could not trace this to Miss Havisham.
-- It was a fresh kind of place, all circumstances considered, where the wind from the river had room to turn itself round; and there were two or three trees in it, and there was the stump of a ruined windmill, and there was the Old Green Copper Rope-walk,--whose long and narrow vista I could trace in the moonlight, along a series of wooden frames set in the ground, that looked like superannuated haymaking-rakes which had grown old and lost most of their teeth.
-- I could trace out where every part of the old house had been, and where the brewery had been, and where the gates, and where the casks.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes they would fix upon my nose, or forehead, where they stung me to the quick, smell-ing very offensively; and I could easily trace that viscous matter, which, our naturalists tell us, enables those crea-tures to walk with their feet upwards upon a ceiling.
-- And I confess, it was not without some pleasure, that I found myself able to trace the particular features, by which cer-tain families are distinguished, up to their originals.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The better class of minds, however, did not need to be informed that the Powlers were an ancient stock, who could trace themselves so exceedingly far back that it was not surprising if they sometimes lost themselves which they had rather frequently done, as respected horse-flesh, blind-hookey, Hebrew monetary transactions, and the Insolvent Debtors' Court.
-- He thought, as she once more shaded them not so much looking at him, as looking for him with a brutish instinct that he was there that no single trace was left in those debauched features, or in the mind that went along with them, of the woman he had married eighteen years before.
-- Cheerless and comfortless, boastfully and doggedly rich, there the room stared at its present occupants, unsoftened and unrelieved by the least trace of any womanly occupation.
-- It matters little what figures of wonderful no-meaning she began to trace upon her wrappers.
-- If she had asserted any influence over him beyond her plain faith in the truth and right of what she said; if she had concealed the least doubt or irresolution, or had harboured for the best purpose any reserve or pretence; if she had shown, or felt, the lightest trace of any sensitiveness to his ridicule or his astonishment, or any remonstrance he might offer; he would have carried it against her at this point.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Now," said Professor Hardwigg, "to trace the particular language."
-- Several times I passed my hand across the rock hoping to find some trace of humidity--of the slightest percolation.
-- After a long and patient examination, he said: "This fish, my dear boy, belongs to a family which has been extinct for ages, and of which no trace has ever been found on earth, except fossil remains in the Devonian strata."
-- Plants disappeared; the granitic rocks lost all trace of solidity; the liquid state was suddenly substituted for that which had before existed.
-- Now we had traveled at least over thrice that distance without discovering any trace of the distant shore.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His voice on the last words had fallen into the heavy broad drag of the dialect...perhaps also in mockery, because there had been no trace of dialect before.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What if his mother had an old reason she well knew for softening to this poor girl!What if the prisoner now sleeping quietly Heaven grant it! by the light of the great Day of judgment should trace back his fall to her.
-- What with these ghostly apprehensions and her singular dreams, Mrs Flintwinch fell that evening into a haunted state of mind, from which it may be long before this present narrative descries any trace of her recovery.
-- There were legends in the place that he did not so much as know the popular heroes and heroines by sight, and that the low comedian had 'mugged' at him in his richest manner fifty nights for a wager, and he had shown no trace of consciousness.
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