尋蹤覓跡：trace一詞該怎麼用
【電影臺詞】
So have you searched the grounds yet? - The warden and his men scoured the island,
not a trace.
What's more disturbing is, we don't know how she got out of her room.
——Shutter Island
所以，你搜查的理由呢？ - 監獄長和他的男人們在這個島，
不是痕跡。
更令人不安的是，我們不知道她怎麼離開她的房間。
——《禁閉島》
一、關於trace，你應該知道的用法有
n.
1.痕跡；蹤跡
Only his hair showed the real trace of years.
歲月只在他頭髮上留下了痕跡。
2.微量
The post-mortem revealed traces of poison in his stomach.
驗屍發現他胃中有微量毒物。
3.[儀] 跡線
The trace showed a normal heart rhythm.
跡線表明心率正常。
v.
1.追溯；回溯 [I,T]
His family can trace its history back to the 10th century.
他的家世淵源可追溯到10世紀。
2.跟蹤，追蹤 [T]
We traced the footsteps in the snow.
我們跟蹤雪地上的足跡。
3.描繪 [I,T]
He traced the plan of the garden.
他描繪了花園的藍圖。
4.探索，查探 [T]
It is interesting to trace his development as a craftsman.
探索他作爲一個手藝人的成長過程是很有趣的。
5.沿路走 [I]
He traced the steps to the pond.
他沿着臺階一直走到池塘。
二、你知道trace和哪些詞更搭嗎？
memory trace
記憶痕
trace element
n.[化]痕量元素,微量元素
trace program
跟蹤程序，追蹤程序，示蹤程序
學會trace的用法了嗎？來做個測試吧！
They then try to______ through every piece of data linked through those.
然後它們嘗試去追蹤通過這些數據連接到每一塊數據。
