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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Officers with their night glasses scoured the growing darkness: sometimes the ocean sparkled under the rays of the moon, which darted between two clouds, then all trace of light was lost in the darkness.
-- The bare walls revealed no trace of window or door.
-- Then, when the work was finished, fire destroyed all trace of our proceedings on this island, that I could have jumped over if I had liked."
-- "Yes, sir," said the Captain, "and if I do not hesitate to tread this South Pole, it is because, up to this time, no human being has left a trace there."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To see the old man struck down beneath the pressure of some hidden grief, to mark his wavering and unsettled state, to be agitated at times with a dreadful fear that his mind was wandering, and to trace in his words and looks the dawning of despondent madness; to watch and wait and listen for confirmation of these things day after day, and to feel and know that, come what might, they were alone in the world with no one to help or advise or care about them these were causes of depression and anxiety that might have sat heavily on an older breast with many influences at work to cheer and gladden it, but how heavily on the mind of a young child to whom they were ever present, and who was constantly surrounded by all that could keep such thoughts in restless action!
-- 'Let us steal away to-morrow morning early and softly, that we may not be seen or heard and leave no trace or track for them to follow by.
-- I trace the same current now, flowing through all his quiet and unobtrusive proceedings. I am about to sign my name, you observe, at the foot of the articles which Mr Chuckster will witness; and placing my finger upon this blue wafer with the vandyked corners, I am constrained to remark in a distinct tone of voice don't be alarmed, ma'am, it is merely a form of law that I deliver this, as my act and deed.
-- When he had gone on thus for some time, he took her hand in his as he was accustomed to do, with nothing of the violence or animation of his late manner; and so, by degrees so fine that the child could not trace them, he settled down into his usual quiet way, and suffered her to lead him where she would.
-- Please God, we shall be there soon to-morrow or next day at the farthest and in the meantime let us think, dear, that it was a good thing we came here; for we are lost in the crowd and hurry of this place, and if any cruel people should pursue us, they could surely never trace us further.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer.
-- Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognised?
-- Not a trace of the thing was to be seen.
-- A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all!I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad to trace the patient readjustments by which the conquest of animated nature had been attained.
-- I walked about the hill among them and avoided them, looking for some trace of Weena.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have that curiosity beside me at this moment, but not a trace of writing now remains beyond a single scratch, such as a man might make with his thumb-nail.
-- Even these bore trace of the drunken folly of the pirates, one in a broken thwart, and both in their muddy and unbailed condition.
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