首页英语词典tracktrack的意思

track

英 [træk] 美[træk]

n. 轨道；足迹，踪迹；小道
vt. 追踪；通过；循路而行；用纤拉
vi. 追踪；走；留下足迹

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词态变化

复数: tracks;第三人称单数: tracks;过去式: tracked;过去分词: tracked;现在分词: tracking;

助记提示

1、trace => track.

中文词源

track 轨道，跑道，路径，跟踪，追踪

来自古法语 trac,轨迹，车道，可能来自荷兰语 trek,踩出的，引导的，词源同 trek,trigger.最终来自 PIE*dhragh,拉，拉出，词源同 draw,tract.引申诸相关词义。

英英释意

1. a line or route along which something travels or moves;: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"

2. evidence pointing to a possible solution;: "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"

3. a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels

4. a course over which races are run

5. a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc;: "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album"

6. an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground

7. (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data

8. a groove on a phonograph recording

9. a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll

10. any road or path affording passage especially a rough one

11. the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

英文词源

track: track: [15] Track was borrowed from Old French trac ‘trail, set of footprints, etc’. This too appears to have been a loanword, from Middle Dutch trek ‘pulling’ (ultimate source of English trek [19], via Afrikaans), which was derived from the verb trekken ‘pull’. The sense ‘path’ did not emerge until as recently as the 19th century.
=> trek
track (n.): late 15c., "footprint, mark left by anything," from Old French trac "track of horses, trace" (mid-15c.), possibly from a Germanic source (compare Middle Low German treck, Dutch trek "drawing, pulling;" see trek). Meaning "lines of rails for drawing trains" is from 1805. Meaning "branch of athletics involving a running track" is recorded from 1905. Meaning "single recorded item" is from 1904, originally in reference to phonograph records. Meaning "mark on skin from repeated drug injection" is first attested 1964.

Track record (1955) is a figurative use from racing, "performance history" of an individual car, runner, horse, etc. (1907, but the phrase was more common in sense "fastest speed recorded at a particular track"). To make tracks "move quickly" is American English colloquial first recorded 1835; to cover (one's) tracks in the figurative sense first attested 1898; to keep track of something is attested from 1883. American English wrong side of the tracks "bad part of town" is by 1901. Track lighting attested from 1970.
track (v.): "to follow or trace the footsteps of," 1560s, from track (n.). Meaning "leave a footprint trail in dirt, mud, etc." is from 1838. Of film and TV cameras, 1959. Related: Tracked; tracking.

同义词辨析

hunt, explore, track, seek

这些动词均含"搜索，寻找"之意。

hunt：一般指寻找所需的物件，或对罪犯的搜寻，特指追猎。

explore：一般指对未知事物或新生事物的探索、观察与研究。

track：侧重按一定线索追查出结果。

seek：语义庄重，语气强，使用广。多暗示做出很大努力去寻求某人或物。

pursue, follow, chase, hunt, trace, track, trail

这些动词均含"跟随，追踪"之意。

pursue：指坚持不懈、毫不动摇地紧跟、追赶某人、某物或某个事业。

follow：普遍用词，含义最广，多指跟随起引导作用的人或物，跟随的动机可以是善意的，也可能是恶意的。

chase：指快速追赶或决心追踪，褒义贬义均可用。

hunt：原义为"追猎、猎取"，现用于指追捕或搜寻逃犯等。

trace：指根据线索或足迹进行跟踪。用于抽象意义时指找到某事物的根源。

track：指沿着人或动物留下的印迹或行迹追踪。

trail：一般指跟踪追击。

考试真题

Nearby cameras tracked the dogs’ eye movements.

The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.

And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person.

In Amsterdam officials are using Airbnb listings to track down unlicensed hotels

In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction.

Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations,and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.

Clearly, there are plenty of ways to keep track of your job search and making the effort to simplify your job search will pay off.

If you are familiar with microsoft Excel or a similar program, creating a table is a simple and effective way to keep track of your job applications.

She told BuzzFeed News that her freshman chemistry class required her to use Connect, a system provided by McGraw hill where students can suBMIt homework, take exams and track their grades.

So any parents who install Smart Wheel can keep track of the teens' driving habits.

The scientists tracked white storks from different colonies in Europe and Africa.

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks ( ' , 鹳) from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

Companies have already won part of the battle, having driven tech into every part of our lives, tracking our steps and our very heartbeats.

They underestimate themselves when selecting a university, said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.

Scientists have devised a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murdervictims.

The music service This Is My Jam helps people navigate the tens of millions of tracks now available instantly via Spotify and iTunes.

University officials say that they have no plans to track their students (and Apple said it would not be possible unless students give their permissio.

The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students gather together.

Your body loses track of whether it's day or night.

"They underestimate themselves when selecting a university," said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.

During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and try acupuncture.

Further complicating my college search was a flourishing track career—I wanted to keep running but my times weren't quite fast enough to secure a scholarship.

He points to a classic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University used functional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of people while concentrating on either socially relevant cue

I juggled cross-country and track schedules, newspaper staff, and my church's youth group and drama team.

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

Space Policy Directive-3 lays out general guidelines for the United States to mitigate the effects of space debris and track and manage traffic in space.

Still, the track coach had offered me a walk-on spot, and I actually found the urban Atlanta campus a decent consolation prize after New York city.

The results highlight the need to develop effective early interventions to help those with attention on track academically and for educators to encourage positive peer relationships, the researchers said.

The study included 386 kindergarteners from schools in the Fast Track Project, a multi-site clinical trial in the U.S that in 1991 began tracking how children developed across their lives.

This conversational robot companion has cameras in its eyes, which allow it to track patients and use appropriate facial expressions and body language in its interactions.

with more than $12 billion in sales this year, the industry is booming and, according to the market research company, Grand view Research, is on track to sell billions more by 2025.

After my graduation, dad's business was getting back on track.

Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at 30 minutes.

But unlike most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals' rightful owners, and returns them.

By tracking people's e-mails and online posts, scientists have found that good news can spread faster and farther than disasters and sob stories.

Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life – from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device.

Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds' health at risk.

Follow the track for the sake of plants.

He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because without shelter, he could die that night.

If you're tired of wandering around the gym wasting time and becoming bored, you can attend an upbeat group fitness class that'll keep your workout on track.

Keep to the track, where one exists, so you lessen the chance of damaging fragile plants.

Keep track of children's use of social media.

Keep track of your efforts and write down how you feel.

Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

Moreover, the usa has a track record of successfully accepting immigrants.

One of the first things maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.

Others absorb light, stopping it dead in its tracks.

She suffered a lot of defeats at the previous track meets.

Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann at a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness.

The evening walk was a time to shake off the day's upsets and let the worry tracks in my head go to white noise.

They recognize there's something missing in their lives, but it's hard to step off the track.

This included digging up the road, laying the track and then building a strong roof over the top.

Through the Internet, Zac tracked down Corrado's sister Adeline Rockko.

We had to keep track of our belongings, and if something was lost , it was not replaced.

While I was slow to accept that I would be the one to keep track of her shots, to schedule her vet appointments, to feed and clean her, misty knew this on day one.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

Getting a DNT signal does not oblige anyone to stop tracking, although some companies have promised to do so.

Few switch DNT on now, but if tracking is off it will stay off.

Conceived in this way, comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader.

Among the most popular: paternity and kinship testing, which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put up for adoption.

In December 2010 America's Federal Trade Commission proposed adding a "do not track" option to internet browsers, so that users could tell advertisers that they did not want to be followed.

The program keeps track of your progress and provides detailed feedback on your performance and improvement.

词组搭配

in one's tracks

(informal)where one or something is at that moment; suddenly

(非正式)就地，当场；突然

Turner immediately &B{stopped dead in his tracks}.
特纳立即就地停住。

keep (或 lose) track of

keep (or fail to keep) fully aware of or informed about

保持（或失去）与…的联系

she had lost all track of time and had fallen asleep.
她完全不知道时间，并且已经入睡了。

make tracks (for)

(informal)leave (for a place)

(非正式)离开（去某地）

off the beaten track

off the track

departing from the right course of thinking or behaviour

出轨；离题

on the right (或 wrong) track

acting or thinking in a way that is likely to result in success (or failure)

循着正确（或错误）的路线

we are on the right track for continued growth.
我们走的是持续增长的正确路线。

on track

acting or thinking in a way that is likely to achieve what is required

在正道上；未离题（或目标）；正确

formulas for keeping the economy on track.
保持经济正确发展的方案。

the wrong side of the tracks

(informal)a poor or less prestigious part of town

(非正式)城镇贫民窟

track someone/thing down

find someone or something after a thorough or difficult search

（经过彻底、复杂的搜查而）跟踪找到；追查到；搜寻到

track up

(of a horse at the trot) create sufficient impulsion in its hindquarters to cause the hind feet to step on to or slightly ahead of the former position of the forefeet

（小跑中的马）使马身后部有足够的冲力，后蹄能踏上或超过前蹄曾踩踏过的地方

track (square) with

(Austral. informal)carry on a romantic or sexual relationship with

(澳，非正式)保持浪漫关系；保持性关系

in (one's) tracks

Exactly where one is standing

正是某人站的地方

stopped him right in his tracks.
当场制止了他

实用场景例句

We set off once more, over a rough mountain track.: 我们沿着一条崎岖的山间小路再度出发。

The two men turned to watch the horses going round the track.: 那两个男人转身观看赛马沿赛道而行。

...the athletics track.: 田径跑道

A woman fell on to the tracks.: 一名女子摔倒在铁轨上。

Graeme Naysmith has produced two of the ten tracks on this album.: 格雷姆·内史密斯创作了这张专辑十首歌中的两首。

The only evidence of pandas was their tracks in the snow...: 熊猫活动的唯一迹象是它们留在雪地上的足迹。

McKee suddenly noticed tire tracks on the bank ahead.: 麦基突然注意到前方岸边的轮胎痕迹。

He thought he had better track this wolf and kill it...: 他认为最好跟踪这只狼，杀了它。

I followed him, tracking him in the snow until finally he got tired.: 我跟着他，在雪地里追踪他，直到他最终体力不支。

Our radar began tracking the jets...: 我们的雷达开始追踪喷气式飞机的动向。

Forecasters are also tracking hurricane Josephine.: 气象预报员也在追踪飓风“约瑟芬”的动向。

If it's possible, track the rumour back to its origin...: 如果可能，应追查谣言的源头。

The player is being tracked by Juventus.: 该选手正为尤文图斯队所追踪关注。

Students are already being tracked.: 学生已经按能力分班了。

He covered his tracks, burnt letters and diaries...: 他掩盖形迹，烧毁了信件与日记。

The killer may have returned to the scene of the crime to cover his tracks.: 凶手可能曾回到犯罪现场掩盖自己的罪行。

Denver has the inside track among 10 sites being considered...: 丹佛在 10 个被考虑的地点之中具有优势。

As an agent, you may have an inside track when good deals become available.: 作为代理人，一旦有划算的买卖你恐怕能近水楼台先得月。

With eleven thousand employees, it's very difficult to keep track of them all...: 对于一支 1.1 万人的员工队伍，很难及时了解到所有有人的动态。

It's hard to keep track of time in here.: 在这里很容易忘了时间。

You become so deeply absorbed in an activity that you lose track of time...: 你会因过于专注某项活动而失去时间概念。

It's so easy to lose track of who's playing who and when.: 很容易就忘记谁要和谁比赛，什么时候比。

We'd better make tracks soon, hadn't we?: 我们最好马上就走，不是吗？

It may take some time to get the British economy back on track...: 要使英国经济重新回到正轨可能需要一段时间。

David put me back on track…: 戴维让我重新回到了正轨。

He was on the track of an escaped criminal...: 他正在追踪一名逃犯。

The research institute is on the track of what causes the artery damage.: 研究所正在探究动脉损伤的诱因。

Guests are returning in increasing numbers — a sure sign that we are on the right track...: 回头客越来越多了——这显然表明我们的路走对了。

We need a convincing win to put us back on the right track…: 我们需要一场令人信服的大胜，以重回正轨。

This magnificent church cannot fail to stop you in your tracks…: 这座宏伟的教堂一定会让你止步赞叹。