track

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解释

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

※ 提供单词"track"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

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.
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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.

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例句和用法

1. Dozens of miles of railway track have been torn up.: 好几十英里的铁轨被毁坏了。

2. She had spent years trying to track down her parents.: 她已经花了好多年时间试图追寻父母的下落。

3. Across the river the railway track ran up to the pithead.: 铁轨跨过这条河直达矿井口。

4. The title track is a pointed meditation on a continent gone wrong.: 主打歌是对一个误入歧途的大陆的深刻沉思。

5. The job needs someone with a good track record in investment.: 这项工作需要有良好投资业绩的人来担当。