backtrail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small path or trail that is not used regularly.
    — The path of renunciation has many sideroads. It is all the more tragic that the radiant Christina Light becomes so benighted in defeat as to pursue moral backtrails out of a bored self-abandon.
  2. The path over which one has already traveled.
    — They waited there for some five minutes when, suddenly, on the backtrail, perhaps a half mile or more behind them, there were three flashes, sudden and bright, one after the other, brilliant in the cold, pure air.
动词 v.
  1. To backtrack along a trail.
    — If they didn't, they would then have to backtrail to try to pick it up

词形变化

backtrails plural backtrails present,singular,third-person backtrailing participle,present backtrailed participle,past backtrailed past

词源

词源 1
From back + trail.
词源 2
From back + trail.
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