Definition of retrace in English:

retrace

verb rɪˈtreɪsriˈtreɪs

[with object]

1Go back over (the same route that one has just taken)
顺（原路）返回
he began to retrace his steps to the station car park
他开始顺原路返回车站停车场。
Example sentencesExamples
- Before he called Frankie, Leo took a drive, retracing the route he and the other two had taken through the dark a week before.
- She tried focusing her thoughts on retracing the steps she had taken into the estate that evening, so that she could find a quick exit.
- For a couple of years he retraced the route through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Florida that he and his father had taken several years before.
- The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
- The idea of returning the way I had come was rejected - I have a profound dislike of retracing my steps - so the one option left open to me was the South Ridge Route.
- So does this have something to do with Theseus in the labyrinth, having slain the Minotaur, retracing his steps with Ariadne's thread?
- Then they passed over a brick bridge that must have been more than a mile long and Bligh knew that they could no longer be retracing their route from the capital.
- In A Survivor's Story, she retraces the route of their 1,000 mile journey from Poland to Germany.
- See how far you can get in your chosen time, stop and rest 2-5 minutes, then turn around, reset the clock and retrace your route.
- After the last showing at the cinemas, when the back roads were quiet, Bill retraced our route along Jingle Pot Road.
- There was no surge of adrenalin, as Deidre turned around and wearily retraced her steps.
- Then suddenly they turn as if they are going to retrace the way they came.
- ‘I know that we saved his life only because we were able to accurately retrace our route and used the silent search and spotlight technique,’ Loui says.
- He exited the servant's room, and crept his way down the hall, retracing the same routes he usually took when wandering at night.
- Some nights when I cannot sleep I retrace in my mind some of my favorite walks through the city.
- For three agonizing hours, they trekked on, knowing full well that they were just retracing their steps.
- In spite of his recent scare, he decided to retrace his steps and try this route again.
- For me, the slow pace of our walk had not just meant taking in all that I came across, but also trying to retrace those steps I had taken with my grandfather.
- As the river twists and sometimes retraces its route, the vineyards are at their steepest on the outer edge of the curve.
- I want you to hold my hand, and we're going to try retracing our steps until I can find some friends that can help us.
1. 1.1 Discover and follow (a route taken by someone else)
  重行（另一人走过的路线）
  I've tried to retrace some of her movements
  我试过重新去走她的一些活动路线。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He tried to repair England's reputation abroad by alliances with Brittany, Burgundy, and Scotland, and also by retracing the steps of previous kings to France.
  Our hopes were high as we left Esperance the next day, retracing the 1931 party's route in reverse.
  The film retraces much of Che's journey, the camera wandering through desolate valleys and rocky cliffs while Che's words are read on the soundtrack.
  They retraced the way Tari went, into the village square.
  Over the last couple of years, I've had the great pleasure of retracing the route Lewis and Clark took to the Pacific.
  Sailing up the Eastern coastline, retracing Cook's route in a reproduction of Cook's ship proved a strange and moving experience.
  In retracing Hegel's itinerary he is in a way making it less idiosyncratic, less the vision of a lone philosopher, and more a familiar sight.
  She spent a year retracing the journey of Burke and Wills in a four-wheel drive.
  Her second journey retraced Salvatore Rosa's own trip from Rome to Ancona through the Umbrian landscape in the 1600s.
  Starting with his persona's acute consciousness of exile, Wright's poetic journeys retrace and reverse the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas.
  The NRG staged a march the day before Bogside, retracing the route of the original civil rights march in 1968 from Dungannon to Coalisland.
  Grann's article describes a retracing of Fawcett's route undertaken earlier this year, with the aid of modern motor vehicles and aluminum boats.
  Frustrated by the slow and inconclusive police investigation, the victim's brother, Cliff, retraces the delivery route in search of clues.
  Francis Harper completed Bartram's scientific descriptions and, retracing the travels, published the landmark naturalist's edition of the Travels.
  King also journeyed by camel and Land Rover through the Sahara, retracing the stumbling meanderings of the mariners, and verifying historical and geographical details.
  But the very project of retracing a journey taken by one or more previous travelers remains citational from the start.
  They even retraced the route he would have taken on his bike to deliver newspapers.
  In her later travels she visited Dove Cottage, retraced Wordsworth's walks, and wrote about him and his sister.
  It's the 43rd annual Good Friday procession in Little Italy, officially titled The Passion and Death of the Lord Jesus Christ but known to most as The Way of the Cross, which retraces Jesus' steps to Golgotha, where he was crucified.
  They were retracing the route that originally took their explorers to Kantus, the first inhabited planet Earth had ever come in contact with besides their own.
2. 1.2 Trace (something) back to its source or beginning.
  追溯；溯源
  I wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway
  我想弄清一种特定进化途径的起源。
  Example sentencesExamples
  To grasp the distinctive character of Art Since 1900, it is worth briefly retracing the evolution of Krauss's ideas.
  The narrator reconstitutes the life of Emily L. by retracing the major and minor traumas she has experienced since her youth.
  In his new book, The English Room, Chippy Irvine explores the history of English living, retracing how the country's homes and interiors have developed over the centuries.
  Chapter 4 also retraces the fascinating, albeit largely forgotten, story of the federal government's attempts to promote complete car manufacture through legislative enactment.
  Young, though, does not seem as interested in retracing or reclaiming his familial roots as experiencing the natural world.
  Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
  I wish to retrace briefly how this project came into being.
  It seemed possible to retrace the city's architectural history on almost any downtown walk, traveling back 150 years decade by decade, block by block.
  Their stories tell of displacement, of the struggle to restore the frayed fabric of a collective history, to retrace threads that have been lost and unravelled.
  This New Year, you might find him reflecting on his return to the Irish market, retracing his childhood holidays along a beach in Clew Bay, in the shadow of Croagh Patrick.
  Before looking at his recent work, it is worth briefly retracing Anuszkiewicz's history.
  To understand this, we have to retrace some of the arguments.
  From the Venus of Milo to Francis Bacon, Ferry illustrates with great clarity the various steps that retrace Hegel's historical and encyclopedic construction of the concept of taste up to our day.
  He returns to his childhood in Littlestone-on-Sea, the Mixed Room at the golf club and finds happiness and comfort in retracing his youth and his days in the army.
  For me, as a pure movie fan, the exploitation genre was just a welcome wake-up call, a chance to retrace the past and reconnect with an important lost artifact.
  Through revealing portraits of the five monarchs, the programme retraces recent political history and provides a unique insight into this complex tribal nation.
  According to Bono the theme of the video is loosely based around scenes from his youth and retracing them, but more than this it is a ‘tribute to my old-man Bob.’
  The first story tells of two middleaged women retracing childhood steps to confront their demons, as fact and memory merge.
  Here is this woman retracing the reigning concepts of her life - what a mother is, what a child, a home, a husband are, what happiness is - and yet this man stupefyingly asks her whether she will be happy.
  And it is not possible to retrace all the steps that led towards this finality - like running a movie backwards.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French retracer.

Definition of retrace in US English:

retrace

verbrēˈtrāsriˈtreɪs

[with object]

1Go back over (the same route that one has just taken)
顺（原路）返回
he began to retrace his steps to the parking lot
他开始顺原路返回车站停车场。
Example sentencesExamples
- So does this have something to do with Theseus in the labyrinth, having slain the Minotaur, retracing his steps with Ariadne's thread?
- There was no surge of adrenalin, as Deidre turned around and wearily retraced her steps.
- For a couple of years he retraced the route through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Florida that he and his father had taken several years before.
- As the river twists and sometimes retraces its route, the vineyards are at their steepest on the outer edge of the curve.
- See how far you can get in your chosen time, stop and rest 2-5 minutes, then turn around, reset the clock and retrace your route.
- Then suddenly they turn as if they are going to retrace the way they came.
- She tried focusing her thoughts on retracing the steps she had taken into the estate that evening, so that she could find a quick exit.
- In spite of his recent scare, he decided to retrace his steps and try this route again.
- Some nights when I cannot sleep I retrace in my mind some of my favorite walks through the city.
- I want you to hold my hand, and we're going to try retracing our steps until I can find some friends that can help us.
- After the last showing at the cinemas, when the back roads were quiet, Bill retraced our route along Jingle Pot Road.
- In A Survivor's Story, she retraces the route of their 1,000 mile journey from Poland to Germany.
- Before he called Frankie, Leo took a drive, retracing the route he and the other two had taken through the dark a week before.
- The idea of returning the way I had come was rejected - I have a profound dislike of retracing my steps - so the one option left open to me was the South Ridge Route.
- For three agonizing hours, they trekked on, knowing full well that they were just retracing their steps.
- He exited the servant's room, and crept his way down the hall, retracing the same routes he usually took when wandering at night.
- The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
- Then they passed over a brick bridge that must have been more than a mile long and Bligh knew that they could no longer be retracing their route from the capital.
- ‘I know that we saved his life only because we were able to accurately retrace our route and used the silent search and spotlight technique,’ Loui says.
- For me, the slow pace of our walk had not just meant taking in all that I came across, but also trying to retrace those steps I had taken with my grandfather.
1. 1.1 Discover and follow (a route or course taken by someone else)
  重行（另一人走过的路线）
  I've tried to retrace some of her movements
  我试过重新去走她的一些活动路线。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He tried to repair England's reputation abroad by alliances with Brittany, Burgundy, and Scotland, and also by retracing the steps of previous kings to France.
  They even retraced the route he would have taken on his bike to deliver newspapers.
  Francis Harper completed Bartram's scientific descriptions and, retracing the travels, published the landmark naturalist's edition of the Travels.
  In retracing Hegel's itinerary he is in a way making it less idiosyncratic, less the vision of a lone philosopher, and more a familiar sight.
  They were retracing the route that originally took their explorers to Kantus, the first inhabited planet Earth had ever come in contact with besides their own.
  She spent a year retracing the journey of Burke and Wills in a four-wheel drive.
  Sailing up the Eastern coastline, retracing Cook's route in a reproduction of Cook's ship proved a strange and moving experience.
  The film retraces much of Che's journey, the camera wandering through desolate valleys and rocky cliffs while Che's words are read on the soundtrack.
  The NRG staged a march the day before Bogside, retracing the route of the original civil rights march in 1968 from Dungannon to Coalisland.
  They retraced the way Tari went, into the village square.
  Our hopes were high as we left Esperance the next day, retracing the 1931 party's route in reverse.
  King also journeyed by camel and Land Rover through the Sahara, retracing the stumbling meanderings of the mariners, and verifying historical and geographical details.
  Over the last couple of years, I've had the great pleasure of retracing the route Lewis and Clark took to the Pacific.
  Her second journey retraced Salvatore Rosa's own trip from Rome to Ancona through the Umbrian landscape in the 1600s.
  But the very project of retracing a journey taken by one or more previous travelers remains citational from the start.
  Starting with his persona's acute consciousness of exile, Wright's poetic journeys retrace and reverse the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas.
  In her later travels she visited Dove Cottage, retraced Wordsworth's walks, and wrote about him and his sister.
  Frustrated by the slow and inconclusive police investigation, the victim's brother, Cliff, retraces the delivery route in search of clues.
  Grann's article describes a retracing of Fawcett's route undertaken earlier this year, with the aid of modern motor vehicles and aluminum boats.
  It's the 43rd annual Good Friday procession in Little Italy, officially titled The Passion and Death of the Lord Jesus Christ but known to most as The Way of the Cross, which retraces Jesus' steps to Golgotha, where he was crucified.
2. 1.2 Trace (something) back to its source or beginning.
  追溯；溯源
  I wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway
  我想弄清一种特定进化途径的起源。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I wish to retrace briefly how this project came into being.
  Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
  Their stories tell of displacement, of the struggle to restore the frayed fabric of a collective history, to retrace threads that have been lost and unravelled.
  The first story tells of two middleaged women retracing childhood steps to confront their demons, as fact and memory merge.
  Chapter 4 also retraces the fascinating, albeit largely forgotten, story of the federal government's attempts to promote complete car manufacture through legislative enactment.
  To grasp the distinctive character of Art Since 1900, it is worth briefly retracing the evolution of Krauss's ideas.
  In his new book, The English Room, Chippy Irvine explores the history of English living, retracing how the country's homes and interiors have developed over the centuries.
  Before looking at his recent work, it is worth briefly retracing Anuszkiewicz's history.
  For me, as a pure movie fan, the exploitation genre was just a welcome wake-up call, a chance to retrace the past and reconnect with an important lost artifact.
  He returns to his childhood in Littlestone-on-Sea, the Mixed Room at the golf club and finds happiness and comfort in retracing his youth and his days in the army.
  This New Year, you might find him reflecting on his return to the Irish market, retracing his childhood holidays along a beach in Clew Bay, in the shadow of Croagh Patrick.
  To understand this, we have to retrace some of the arguments.
  From the Venus of Milo to Francis Bacon, Ferry illustrates with great clarity the various steps that retrace Hegel's historical and encyclopedic construction of the concept of taste up to our day.
  Young, though, does not seem as interested in retracing or reclaiming his familial roots as experiencing the natural world.
  According to Bono the theme of the video is loosely based around scenes from his youth and retracing them, but more than this it is a ‘tribute to my old-man Bob.’
  Here is this woman retracing the reigning concepts of her life - what a mother is, what a child, a home, a husband are, what happiness is - and yet this man stupefyingly asks her whether she will be happy.
  The narrator reconstitutes the life of Emily L. by retracing the major and minor traumas she has experienced since her youth.
  Through revealing portraits of the five monarchs, the programme retraces recent political history and provides a unique insight into this complex tribal nation.
  And it is not possible to retrace all the steps that led towards this finality - like running a movie backwards.
  It seemed possible to retrace the city's architectural history on almost any downtown walk, traveling back 150 years decade by decade, block by block.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French retracer.

单词	retrace
释义	Definition of retrace in English: retrace verb rɪˈtreɪsriˈtreɪs [with object] 1Go back over (the same route that one has just taken) 顺（原路）返回 he began to retrace his steps to the station car park 他开始顺原路返回车站停车场。 Example sentencesExamples Before he called Frankie, Leo took a drive, retracing the route he and the other two had taken through the dark a week before. She tried focusing her thoughts on retracing the steps she had taken into the estate that evening, so that she could find a quick exit. For a couple of years he retraced the route through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Florida that he and his father had taken several years before. The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise. The idea of returning the way I had come was rejected - I have a profound dislike of retracing my steps - so the one option left open to me was the South Ridge Route. So does this have something to do with Theseus in the labyrinth, having slain the Minotaur, retracing his steps with Ariadne's thread? Then they passed over a brick bridge that must have been more than a mile long and Bligh knew that they could no longer be retracing their route from the capital. In A Survivor's Story, she retraces the route of their 1,000 mile journey from Poland to Germany. See how far you can get in your chosen time, stop and rest 2-5 minutes, then turn around, reset the clock and retrace your route. After the last showing at the cinemas, when the back roads were quiet, Bill retraced our route along Jingle Pot Road. There was no surge of adrenalin, as Deidre turned around and wearily retraced her steps. Then suddenly they turn as if they are going to retrace the way they came. ‘I know that we saved his life only because we were able to accurately retrace our route and used the silent search and spotlight technique,’ Loui says. He exited the servant's room, and crept his way down the hall, retracing the same routes he usually took when wandering at night. Some nights when I cannot sleep I retrace in my mind some of my favorite walks through the city. For three agonizing hours, they trekked on, knowing full well that they were just retracing their steps. In spite of his recent scare, he decided to retrace his steps and try this route again. For me, the slow pace of our walk had not just meant taking in all that I came across, but also trying to retrace those steps I had taken with my grandfather. As the river twists and sometimes retraces its route, the vineyards are at their steepest on the outer edge of the curve. I want you to hold my hand, and we're going to try retracing our steps until I can find some friends that can help us. 1.1 Discover and follow (a route taken by someone else) 重行（另一人走过的路线） I've tried to retrace some of her movements 我试过重新去走她的一些活动路线。 Example sentencesExamples He tried to repair England's reputation abroad by alliances with Brittany, Burgundy, and Scotland, and also by retracing the steps of previous kings to France. Our hopes were high as we left Esperance the next day, retracing the 1931 party's route in reverse. The film retraces much of Che's journey, the camera wandering through desolate valleys and rocky cliffs while Che's words are read on the soundtrack. They retraced the way Tari went, into the village square. Over the last couple of years, I've had the great pleasure of retracing the route Lewis and Clark took to the Pacific. Sailing up the Eastern coastline, retracing Cook's route in a reproduction of Cook's ship proved a strange and moving experience. In retracing Hegel's itinerary he is in a way making it less idiosyncratic, less the vision of a lone philosopher, and more a familiar sight. She spent a year retracing the journey of Burke and Wills in a four-wheel drive. Her second journey retraced Salvatore Rosa's own trip from Rome to Ancona through the Umbrian landscape in the 1600s. Starting with his persona's acute consciousness of exile, Wright's poetic journeys retrace and reverse the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. The NRG staged a march the day before Bogside, retracing the route of the original civil rights march in 1968 from Dungannon to Coalisland. Grann's article describes a retracing of Fawcett's route undertaken earlier this year, with the aid of modern motor vehicles and aluminum boats. Frustrated by the slow and inconclusive police investigation, the victim's brother, Cliff, retraces the delivery route in search of clues. Francis Harper completed Bartram's scientific descriptions and, retracing the travels, published the landmark naturalist's edition of the Travels. King also journeyed by camel and Land Rover through the Sahara, retracing the stumbling meanderings of the mariners, and verifying historical and geographical details. But the very project of retracing a journey taken by one or more previous travelers remains citational from the start. They even retraced the route he would have taken on his bike to deliver newspapers. In her later travels she visited Dove Cottage, retraced Wordsworth's walks, and wrote about him and his sister. It's the 43rd annual Good Friday procession in Little Italy, officially titled The Passion and Death of the Lord Jesus Christ but known to most as The Way of the Cross, which retraces Jesus' steps to Golgotha, where he was crucified. They were retracing the route that originally took their explorers to Kantus, the first inhabited planet Earth had ever come in contact with besides their own. 1.2 Trace (something) back to its source or beginning. 追溯；溯源 I wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway 我想弄清一种特定进化途径的起源。 Example sentencesExamples To grasp the distinctive character of Art Since 1900, it is worth briefly retracing the evolution of Krauss's ideas. The narrator reconstitutes the life of Emily L. by retracing the major and minor traumas she has experienced since her youth. In his new book, The English Room, Chippy Irvine explores the history of English living, retracing how the country's homes and interiors have developed over the centuries. Chapter 4 also retraces the fascinating, albeit largely forgotten, story of the federal government's attempts to promote complete car manufacture through legislative enactment. Young, though, does not seem as interested in retracing or reclaiming his familial roots as experiencing the natural world. Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond. I wish to retrace briefly how this project came into being. It seemed possible to retrace the city's architectural history on almost any downtown walk, traveling back 150 years decade by decade, block by block. Their stories tell of displacement, of the struggle to restore the frayed fabric of a collective history, to retrace threads that have been lost and unravelled. This New Year, you might find him reflecting on his return to the Irish market, retracing his childhood holidays along a beach in Clew Bay, in the shadow of Croagh Patrick. Before looking at his recent work, it is worth briefly retracing Anuszkiewicz's history. To understand this, we have to retrace some of the arguments. From the Venus of Milo to Francis Bacon, Ferry illustrates with great clarity the various steps that retrace Hegel's historical and encyclopedic construction of the concept of taste up to our day. He returns to his childhood in Littlestone-on-Sea, the Mixed Room at the golf club and finds happiness and comfort in retracing his youth and his days in the army. For me, as a pure movie fan, the exploitation genre was just a welcome wake-up call, a chance to retrace the past and reconnect with an important lost artifact. Through revealing portraits of the five monarchs, the programme retraces recent political history and provides a unique insight into this complex tribal nation. According to Bono the theme of the video is loosely based around scenes from his youth and retracing them, but more than this it is a ‘tribute to my old-man Bob.’ The first story tells of two middleaged women retracing childhood steps to confront their demons, as fact and memory merge. Here is this woman retracing the reigning concepts of her life - what a mother is, what a child, a home, a husband are, what happiness is - and yet this man stupefyingly asks her whether she will be happy. And it is not possible to retrace all the steps that led towards this finality - like running a movie backwards. Origin Late 17th century: from French retracer. Definition of retrace in US English: retrace verbrēˈtrāsriˈtreɪs [with object] 1Go back over (the same route that one has just taken) 顺（原路）返回 he began to retrace his steps to the parking lot 他开始顺原路返回车站停车场。 Example sentencesExamples So does this have something to do with Theseus in the labyrinth, having slain the Minotaur, retracing his steps with Ariadne's thread? There was no surge of adrenalin, as Deidre turned around and wearily retraced her steps. For a couple of years he retraced the route through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Florida that he and his father had taken several years before. As the river twists and sometimes retraces its route, the vineyards are at their steepest on the outer edge of the curve. See how far you can get in your chosen time, stop and rest 2-5 minutes, then turn around, reset the clock and retrace your route. Then suddenly they turn as if they are going to retrace the way they came. She tried focusing her thoughts on retracing the steps she had taken into the estate that evening, so that she could find a quick exit. In spite of his recent scare, he decided to retrace his steps and try this route again. Some nights when I cannot sleep I retrace in my mind some of my favorite walks through the city. I want you to hold my hand, and we're going to try retracing our steps until I can find some friends that can help us. After the last showing at the cinemas, when the back roads were quiet, Bill retraced our route along Jingle Pot Road. In A Survivor's Story, she retraces the route of their 1,000 mile journey from Poland to Germany. Before he called Frankie, Leo took a drive, retracing the route he and the other two had taken through the dark a week before. The idea of returning the way I had come was rejected - I have a profound dislike of retracing my steps - so the one option left open to me was the South Ridge Route. For three agonizing hours, they trekked on, knowing full well that they were just retracing their steps. He exited the servant's room, and crept his way down the hall, retracing the same routes he usually took when wandering at night. The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise. Then they passed over a brick bridge that must have been more than a mile long and Bligh knew that they could no longer be retracing their route from the capital. ‘I know that we saved his life only because we were able to accurately retrace our route and used the silent search and spotlight technique,’ Loui says. For me, the slow pace of our walk had not just meant taking in all that I came across, but also trying to retrace those steps I had taken with my grandfather. 1.1 Discover and follow (a route or course taken by someone else) 重行（另一人走过的路线） I've tried to retrace some of her movements 我试过重新去走她的一些活动路线。 Example sentencesExamples He tried to repair England's reputation abroad by alliances with Brittany, Burgundy, and Scotland, and also by retracing the steps of previous kings to France. They even retraced the route he would have taken on his bike to deliver newspapers. Francis Harper completed Bartram's scientific descriptions and, retracing the travels, published the landmark naturalist's edition of the Travels. In retracing Hegel's itinerary he is in a way making it less idiosyncratic, less the vision of a lone philosopher, and more a familiar sight. They were retracing the route that originally took their explorers to Kantus, the first inhabited planet Earth had ever come in contact with besides their own. She spent a year retracing the journey of Burke and Wills in a four-wheel drive. Sailing up the Eastern coastline, retracing Cook's route in a reproduction of Cook's ship proved a strange and moving experience. The film retraces much of Che's journey, the camera wandering through desolate valleys and rocky cliffs while Che's words are read on the soundtrack. The NRG staged a march the day before Bogside, retracing the route of the original civil rights march in 1968 from Dungannon to Coalisland. They retraced the way Tari went, into the village square. Our hopes were high as we left Esperance the next day, retracing the 1931 party's route in reverse. King also journeyed by camel and Land Rover through the Sahara, retracing the stumbling meanderings of the mariners, and verifying historical and geographical details. Over the last couple of years, I've had the great pleasure of retracing the route Lewis and Clark took to the Pacific. Her second journey retraced Salvatore Rosa's own trip from Rome to Ancona through the Umbrian landscape in the 1600s. But the very project of retracing a journey taken by one or more previous travelers remains citational from the start. Starting with his persona's acute consciousness of exile, Wright's poetic journeys retrace and reverse the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. In her later travels she visited Dove Cottage, retraced Wordsworth's walks, and wrote about him and his sister. Frustrated by the slow and inconclusive police investigation, the victim's brother, Cliff, retraces the delivery route in search of clues. Grann's article describes a retracing of Fawcett's route undertaken earlier this year, with the aid of modern motor vehicles and aluminum boats. It's the 43rd annual Good Friday procession in Little Italy, officially titled The Passion and Death of the Lord Jesus Christ but known to most as The Way of the Cross, which retraces Jesus' steps to Golgotha, where he was crucified. 1.2 Trace (something) back to its source or beginning. 追溯；溯源 I wanted to retrace a particular evolutionary pathway 我想弄清一种特定进化途径的起源。 Example sentencesExamples I wish to retrace briefly how this project came into being. Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond. Their stories tell of displacement, of the struggle to restore the frayed fabric of a collective history, to retrace threads that have been lost and unravelled. The first story tells of two middleaged women retracing childhood steps to confront their demons, as fact and memory merge. Chapter 4 also retraces the fascinating, albeit largely forgotten, story of the federal government's attempts to promote complete car manufacture through legislative enactment. To grasp the distinctive character of Art Since 1900, it is worth briefly retracing the evolution of Krauss's ideas. In his new book, The English Room, Chippy Irvine explores the history of English living, retracing how the country's homes and interiors have developed over the centuries. Before looking at his recent work, it is worth briefly retracing Anuszkiewicz's history. For me, as a pure movie fan, the exploitation genre was just a welcome wake-up call, a chance to retrace the past and reconnect with an important lost artifact. He returns to his childhood in Littlestone-on-Sea, the Mixed Room at the golf club and finds happiness and comfort in retracing his youth and his days in the army. This New Year, you might find him reflecting on his return to the Irish market, retracing his childhood holidays along a beach in Clew Bay, in the shadow of Croagh Patrick. To understand this, we have to retrace some of the arguments. From the Venus of Milo to Francis Bacon, Ferry illustrates with great clarity the various steps that retrace Hegel's historical and encyclopedic construction of the concept of taste up to our day. Young, though, does not seem as interested in retracing or reclaiming his familial roots as experiencing the natural world. According to Bono the theme of the video is loosely based around scenes from his youth and retracing them, but more than this it is a ‘tribute to my old-man Bob.’ Here is this woman retracing the reigning concepts of her life - what a mother is, what a child, a home, a husband are, what happiness is - and yet this man stupefyingly asks her whether she will be happy. The narrator reconstitutes the life of Emily L. by retracing the major and minor traumas she has experienced since her youth. Through revealing portraits of the five monarchs, the programme retraces recent political history and provides a unique insight into this complex tribal nation. And it is not possible to retrace all the steps that led towards this finality - like running a movie backwards. It seemed possible to retrace the city's architectural history on almost any downtown walk, traveling back 150 years decade by decade, block by block. Origin Late 17th century: from French retracer.
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