资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {traced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {tracing}.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL.
   tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf.
   {Abstract}, {Attract}, {Contract}, {Portratt}, {Tract},
   {Trail}, {Train}, {Treat}. ]
   1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially,
      to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines
      and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which
      they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced
      drawing.

            Some faintly traced features or outline of the
            mother and the child, slowly lading into the
            twilight of the woods.                --Hawthorne.

   2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or
      thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks,
      or tokens. --Cowper.

            You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. --T.
                                                  Burnet.

            I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest
            agents.                               --Milton.

   3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of.

            How all the way the prince on footpace traced.
                                                  --Spenser.

   4. To copy; to imitate.

            That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of
            tracing word, and line by line.       --Denham.

   5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.

            We do tracethis alley up and down.    --Shak.

资料来源 : WordNet®

traced
     adj : derived by copying something else; especially by following
           lines seen through a transparent sheet [syn: {copied}]