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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were not far now from the highest peak of the Cordilleras, but there was not the slightest trace of any beaten path.
-- At 11,000 feet all trace of vegetation had disappeared.
-- It is Maria Theresa—a name of which there is not a single trace in either of the three documents."
-- They had made the circuit of the entire island in a few hours, but without coming across the least trace of the BRITANNIA.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have found no trace of her down about us.'
-- Mountain-peaks of great celebrity in the valleys, whence no trace of their existence was visible sometimes for months together, had been since morning plain and near in the blue sky.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weeks have passed, but no trace of her has been discovered, and we relinquish all hope, tie a black ribbon to her basket, set aside her dish, and weep for her as one lost to us forever.
-- All this flashed through his mind in a minute, but not a trace of it appeared in his face, and by the time the paper was turned, and Jo's needle threaded, he was ready to say quite naturally, but very gravely... 'Yes, you are right to put it from you.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture.
-- Then seating himself before it, you would have seen him intently study the various lines and shadings which there met his eye; and with slow but steady pencil trace additional courses over spaces that before were blank.
-- Nor when expandingly lifted by your subject, can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as when long filled with thoughts of war the Eastern nations saw armies locked in battle among the clouds.
-- But once gone through, we trace the round again; and are infants, boys, and men, and Ifs eternally.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No chance-child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence-halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.
-- Lights were then procured; and Messrs. Blathers and Duff, attended by the native constable, Brittles, Giles, and everybody else in short, went into the little room at the end of the passage and looked out at the window; and afterwards went round by way of the lawn, and looked in at the window; and after that, had a candle handed out to inspect the shutter with; and after that, a lantern to trace the footsteps with; and after that, a pitchfork to poke the bushes with.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it, with delight.
-- Sometimes she could fancy that he talked less than on former occasions, and once or twice pleased herself with the notion that, as he looked at her, he was trying to trace a resemblance.
-- Though Lydia's short letter to Mrs. F. gave them to understand that they were going to Gretna Green, something was dropped by Den-ny expressing his belief that W. never intended to go there, or to marry Lydia at all, which was repeated to Colonel F., who, instantly taking the alarm, set off from B. intending to trace their route.
-- He did trace them easily to Clapham, but no further; for on entering that place, they removed into a hackney coach, and dismissed the chaise that brought them from Epsom.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I could not trace her beyond her first seducer, and there was every reason to fear that she had removed from him only to sink deeper in a life of sin.
-- But Marianne, who saw his agitation, and could easily trace it to whatever cause best pleased herself, was perfectly satisfied, and soon talked of something else.
-- We will walk to the farm at the edge of the down, and see how the children go on; we will walk to Sir John's new plantations at Barton Cross, and the Abbeyland; and we will often go to the old ruins of the Priory, and try to trace its foundations as far as we are told they once reached.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All this Hurstwood could see, and it left a trace of feeling, for he was used to being considered--in his official position, at least--and felt that his importance should not begin to wane here.
-- There was no trace of embarrassment in her friend's manner.
-- Each day he would find some old paper lying about and look into it, to see if there was any trace of Carrie, but all summer and fall he had looked in vain.
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