单词
tract
英 [tr?kt]
美[tr?kt]
基本信息
- n. 束；大片土地，地带；小册子
- n. (Tract)人名；(英)特拉克特
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词态变化
复数:?tracts;
助记提示
1、tract- => tract.
2、stretch / pull of land or water, plot of land for development.
3、little book, treatise, a handling.
2、stretch / pull of land or water, plot of land for development.
3、little book, treatise, a handling.
中文词源
tract 道，束，大片土地，地带
来自拉丁语 tractus,跑道，路径，来自拉丁语 trahere,拖，拉，使移动，来自 PIE*tragh,拖，拉， 使移动，来自 PIE*dhragh,拉，拉出，词源同 draw,tract.引申词义一片土地，地带，道，束等。
tract 小册子来自拉丁语 tractare,处理，操纵，对待，来自拉丁语 trahere 的反复格动词形式，词源同
英文词源
- tract (n.1)
- "area," mid-15c., "period or lapse of time," from Latin tractus "track, course, space, duration," lit, "a drawing out or pulling," from stem of trahere "to pull, draw," from PIE root *tragh- "to draw, drag, move" (cognates: Slovenian trag "trace, track," Middle Irish tragud "ebb;" perhaps with a variant form *dhragh-; see drag (v.)). The meaning "stretch of land or water" is first recorded 1550s. Specific U.S. sense of "plot of land for development" is recorded from 1912; tract housing attested from 1953.
- tract (n.2)
- "little book, treatise" mid-12c., probably a shortened form of Latin tractatus "a handling, treatise, treatment," from tractare "to handle" (see treat (v.)). Related: Tractarian.
双语例句
- 1. A cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract.
- 感冒是上呼吸道的感染。
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- 2. Water is ideal to flush the kidneys and the urinary tract.
- 用水清洗肾脏和尿道最理想不过。
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- 3. She produced a feminist tract, "Comments on Birth-Control", in 1930.
- 她1930年写了篇女性主义的短文《论节育》。
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- 4. A vast tract of land is ready for development.
- 一大片广阔的土地可待开发。
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- 5. Foods are broken down in the digestive tract.
- 食物在消化道里分解。
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