n.[C]

1. 行蹤；軌道；足跡[P1]
   We followed his tracks in the snow to a hut.

   我們沿著他在雪地上留下的足跡走到一間小屋旁。

2. 小徑，小道
3. 鐵軌，軌道[P1]
   The train jumped the track.

   火車出軌了。

4. 【體】跑道；徑賽運動
   He runs around the track every morning.

   他每天清晨繞著跑道跑步。

5. 歷程；行動路線；思路
   You're on the wrong track.

   你想得不對了。

6. 慣例，常規
7. （坦克等的）履帶

vt.

1. 跟蹤；追蹤[（+to）]
   It was not long before I tracked down the lost wallet.

   不久我就找到了遺失的錢包。

   The hunter tracked the wolf and managed to catch it.

   獵人追蹤狼，並設法逮住它。

2. 沿著（道路）走
3. 走過，通過
4. 在……上留下足跡
   The dog tracked mud all over the shiny kitchen.

   狗在廚房發亮的地板上留下一屋子泥。

   The child rushed into the room and tracked dirt over the floor.

   小孩衝進房間，在地板上到處留下帶泥的腳印。

5. 為……鋪軌

vi.

1. 追蹤
2. 留下足跡
3. （攝影機）跟蹤攝影[Q]
4. 走[（+about）]

n.

1. a rough path or minor road.
2. a prepared course or circuit for racing.
3. a mark or line of marks left by a person, animal, or vehicle in passing.
   ▸the course followed by someone or something.
4. a continuous line of rails on a railway.
5. a strip or rail along which something (e.g. a curtain) may be moved.
6. a continuous articulated metal band around the wheels of a heavy vehicle such as a tank, facilitating movement over difficult ground.
7. Electronics  a continuous line of conductive material on a printed circuit board, connecting parts of a circuit.
8. a section of a record, compact disc, or cassette tape containing one song or piece of music. [orig. denoting a groove on a gramophone record.]
   ▸a lengthwise strip of magnetic tape containing one sequence of signals.
9. the transverse distance between a vehicle's wheels.
10. US term for stream (in sense ³).

v.

1. follow the course or movements of.
   ▸ (track someone/thing down) find someone or something after a lengthy search.
   ▸follow a course.
   ▸(of a stylus) follow (a groove in a record).
   ▸(of a film or television camera) move in relation to the subject being filmed. [with ref. to early filming when a camera was mobile by means of a track.]
2. (of wheels) run so that the back ones are exactly in the track of the front ones.
3. Electronics  (of a tunable circuit or component) vary in frequency in the same way as another circuit or component.
4. (track something up) N. Amer. leave a trail of dirty footprints on a surface.
   ▸ (track something in) leave a trail of dirt or snow from one's feet.

v.

[名]

1. 跑道。
   트랙 경기.

   徑賽。