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：
-- Not a trace of the shipwreck could be seen anywhere.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The only other kinsman whom we have been able to trace was Rodger Baskerville, the youngest of three brothers of whom poor Sir Charles was the elder.
-- The second: 'Visited twenty-three hotels as directed, but sorry, to re-port unable to trace cut sheet of Times. CARTWRIGHT.'
-- There was the sharp pinnacle of granite still cut-ting the lower edge of the moon, but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure.
-- But if we can only trace L. L. it should clear up the whole business.
-- Nowhere was there any trace of that lonely man whom I had seen on the same spot two nights before.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not only was there no trace of her former irony, of her old hatred and enmity, and of that dreadful laughter, the very recollection of which sent a cold chill down Totski's back to this very day; but she seemed charmed and really glad to have the opportunity of talking seriously with him for once in a way.
-- He was remarkable for the poverty, not to say uncleanliness, of his personal appearance: the sleeves of his overcoat were greasy; his dirty waistcoat, buttoned up to his neck, showed not a trace of linen; a filthy black silk scarf, twisted till it resembled a cord, was round his neck, and his hands were unwashed.
-- But I can't help knowing that after twenty-four years of illness there must be some trace left, so that it is impossible for people to refrain from laughing at me sometimes; don't you think so?'
-- The pocket was empty the purse gone, and not a trace to be found!'
-- An hour after that is at about eight, I went to Wilkin's myself, and there was no trace of Ferdish-enko.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was little trace of wheel-marks in the fine dust, and the horses came flying in at their utmost speed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Marvel, turning, saw a flint jerk up into the air, trace a complicated path, hang for a moment, and then fling at his feet with almost invisible rapidity.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You could still trace the stone causeways that led up to the ruined gates where the last splinters of wood hung to the worn, rusted hinges.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The search proved fruitless; for so short and sudden had been the pas-sage from the faint path the travelers had journeyed into the thicket, that every trace of their footsteps was lost in the obscurity of the woods.
-- He knew them for his own battalion of the Royal Americans, and flying to their head, soon swept every trace of his pur-suers from before the works.
-- The aged soldier examined it with eyes that grew dim as he gazed; nor did he rise from this stooping pos-ture until Heyward saw that he had watered the trace of his daughter's passage with a scalding tear.
-- While under the influence of these gentle and natural feelings, no trace of ferocity was to be seen in the softened features of the Sagamore.
-- But what is the edging of blacker smoke that hangs along its lower side, and which you may trace down into the thicket of hazel?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here and there on the left sparkled through glades the waters of the little river; they could trace its winding course back towards the spurs of the mountain, among which it seemed to spring.
-- Not even a pebble recently displaced; not a trace on the sand; not a human footstep on all that part of the beach.
-- Perhaps he had found some mark, a footstep, a trace which had put him in the right path.
-- There, without any hope he acknowledged, Neb had searched the beach, among the rocks, on the sand, for the smallest trace to guide him.
-- The engineer then took a flat stone which he had brought back from one of his previous excursions, a sort of slate, on which it was easy to trace figures with a sharp shell.
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