Tracing

(noun.) the discovery and description of the course of development of something; 'the tracing of genealogies'.

(noun.) the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline.

(noun.) a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image.

校对:马尔科姆

• You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• As her glasses are of remarkable strength, and as opticians are not very numerous, there should be no difficulty in tracing her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• As a means of tracing him, if he wished to inquire about him from any third person. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And now that we know what they are like there is no difficulty in tracing out the sort of life which awaits either of them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• A pencil point is secured to moving cross-head and marks position of target on ground glass, tracing movement of same thereon. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Well, if our conjecture is correct and the girl's name is or was Sophy Kratides, we should have no difficulty in tracing her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• We pass over Leonardo da Vinci and many others in Italy and elsewhere, whose names should be mentioned if we were tracing this method to its origin. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Tracing mile after mile along between the dying ferns and the wet white spiders' webs, she at length turned her steps towards her grandfather's house. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Unconsciously, with her sensitive fingertips, she was tracing the back of his thighs, following some mysterious life-flow there. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• If he be tracing out his destiny, that may be written in other characters nearer to his hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The weather had for some time been too wet and the night itself had been too wet to admit of any tracing by footsteps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My interest in tracing Mr. Candy's lost recollection is not the interest of recovering the Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Its implications are well worth tracing, for through them I think we can come to understand better the method of Twentieth Century politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I believe I have a strong interest, I said, in tracing the lost remembrance which Mr. Candy was unable to recall. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He appears to be unreasonably anxious about tracing her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The paper was covered with the tracings of the foot-marks of some small animal. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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