tract
noun /trækt/
/trækt/
- (biology
) a system of connected organs or tissues along which materials or messages pass生物 (连通身体组织或器官的)道,束 - the digestive tract
消化道 - a nerve tract
神经束
- the digestive tract
- an area of land, especially a large one
synonym stretch大片土地;地带 - vast tracts of forest
大片大片的森林 - They bought a 40-acre tract of land for development.
他们买了一块40英亩的土地用于开发。
- The county has small towns and villages and large tracts of moorland.
该县有小城镇和村庄以及大片高沼地。 - Whole tracts of the countryside have been turned into industrial wasteland.
成片成片的乡间土地都变成了工业废地。
- vast tracts of forest
- (sometimes disapproving) a short piece of writing, especially on a religious, moral or political subject, that is intended to influence people’s ideas
(尤指宣扬宗教、伦理或政治的)短文,传单,小册子 - feminist tracts
女权主义传单
- feminist tracts
词源senses 1 to 2 late Middle English (in the sense ‘duration or course of time’): from Latin tractus ‘drawing, draught’, from trahere ‘draw, pull’.sense 3 late Middle English (denoting a written work treating a particular topic), apparently an abbreviation of Latin tractatus, from tractare ‘to handle’, frequentative of trahere ‘draw’. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.