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trailing 音标拼音: [tr'elɪŋ] 寻迹,跟踪 寻迹,跟踪 trailing尾随 trailing n 1: the pursuit ( of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind [ synonym: { trailing}, { tracking}] Trail \ Trail\ ( tr[= a] l), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Trailed}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Trailing}.] [ OE. trailen, OF. trailler to trail a deer, or hunt him upon a cold scent, also, to hunt or pursue him with a limehound, F. trailler to trail a fishing line; probably from a derivative of L. trahere to draw; cf. L. traha a drag, sledge, tragula a kind of drag net, a small sledge, Sp. trailla a leash, an instrument for leveling the ground, D. treilen to draw with a rope, to tow, treil a rope for drawing a boat. See { Trace}, v. t.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. ( a) To hunt by the track; to track. ( b) to follow behind. ( c) To pursue. -- Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 2. To draw or drag, as along the ground. [ 1913 Webster] And hung his head, and trailed his legs along. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] They shall not trail me through their streets Like a wild beast. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Long behind he trails his pompous robe. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Mil.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon. [ Prov. Eng.] [ 1913 Webster] I presently perceived she was ( what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance. -- C. Bronte. [ 1913 Webster]
Trailing \ Trail" ing\, a. & vb. n. from { Trail}. [ 1913 Webster] { Trailing arbutus}. ( Bot.) See under { Arbutus}. { Trailing spring}, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. -- Weale. { Trailing wheel}, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage. [ 1913 Webster] 46 Moby Thesaurus words for " trailing": bugging, chase, chasing, cloak- and- dagger work, consecutive, counterespionage, counterintelligence, dogging, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, follow, follow- up, following, heeling, hounding, hue and cry, hunting, intelligence, intelligence work, military intelligence, observation, prosecution, pursual, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, searching, secret police, secret service, seeking, sequel, sequence, series, shadowing, spying, stakeout, stalking, succeeding, surveillance, tailing, tracking, tracking down, wiretap, wiretapping
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