Tract

(noun.) a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose.

(noun.) a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet.

(noun.) an extended area of land.

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• D'Alibard, who made the first experiments in France, says that he only followed the tract which Franklin had pointed out. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A rich American had bought a tract of central real estate in Paris and had built a row of shops arranged on the two sides of a cloister. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I sowed the good seed, in spite of him, by throwing a second tract in at the window of the cab. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Holmes pointed down the long tract of road which wound, a reddish yellow band, between the brown of the heath and the budding green of the woods. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He took a tract of land sixty miles in circumference and set to work to make this park and build this palace and a road to it from Paris. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Mr. Cowper recommended the Religious Tract Society to put aside their coarse woodcuts, to have superior wood engravings, and to print with his machine. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Will you favour me by accepting a tract? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Large tract of marshes about here, I believe? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• These are divided into tracts of about the same size, each tract being under the supervision of one or more government officers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The tract was one of a series addressed to young women on the sinfulness of dress. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The tribe to which he belonged roamed a tract extending, roughly, twenty-five miles along the seacoast and some fifty miles inland. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The old man frequently stretched his eyes ahead to gaze over the tract that he had yet to traverse. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• While caressing the spaniel, his eye roved over the papers and books just replaced; it settled on the religious tract. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I waited till the door was shut on me, and slipped the tract into the letter-box. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I fell into a beaten road, where I saw many tracts of human feet, and some of cows, but most of horses. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Well, she not only took tracts, but she read them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I hope I shall never see you or your tracts again. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The Countess Southdown kept on dropping per coach at the lodge-gate the most exciting tracts, tracts which ought to frighten the hair off your head. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• These are divided into tracts of about the same size, each tract being under the supervision of one or more government officers. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• They cut, indeed, vast tracts of grain and grass, but the machines had to be followed by an army of men to bind and gather the fallen grain. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But she is boring all the men horribly, and if she takes to distributing tracts, as I hear she does, it will be too depressing. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• He walked through the warm sun westward into those tracts of Egdon with which he was best acquainted, being those lying nearer to his old home. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I sat there quite immovable, with my tracts at my elbow and with Miss Jane Ann Stamper on my lap. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

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