track down
phrasal verbtrack somebody/something down
- to find somebody/something after searching in several different places
synonym trace搜寻到;跟踪找到;追查到 - The police have so far failed to track down the attacker.
警方至今未能追捕到攻击者。 - We finally managed to track him down to a retirement home in Sussex.
我们最终设法找到了他在苏塞克斯郡的一家养老院。 - I finally tracked the reference down in a book of quotations.
我终于在一本引语书中查到了那条引文。
- The police have so far failed to track down the attacker.