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A tracker is a person who follows an animal or another person by reading the signs they leave behind — footprints, broken branches, ash from a fire. It is skilled work, and the word carries a picture of someone who can look at ground that seems empty to you and say what passed by and how long ago. You meet this sense in stories about hunting, about the American West, about people lost in the bush.
A trackertracker is a person是一種人 who follows an animal or another person會跟蹤動物或另一個人 by reading the signs they leave behind靠著讀懂他們留下的痕跡 — footprints, broken branches, ash from a fire像腳印、折斷的樹枝、火留下的灰燼. It它 is skilled work是需要技術的工作 and the word carries a picture of someone而且這個字讓人聯想到一種人 who can look at ground that seems empty to you能看著你覺得什麼都沒有的地面 and say what passed by and how long ago就說得出有什麼東西經過、多久之前. You meet this sense你會在 in stories about hunting, about the American West, about people lost in the bush關於打獵、美國西部、在叢林裡迷路的故事裡遇到這個意思
The same word has moved into modern life for machines and systems that do the following instead: a GPS tracker on a car, a fitness tracker on your wrist, a bug tracker at work that keeps a list of problems, a solar tracker that turns a panel to face the sun. If a student meets 'tracker' today it is far more likely to be one of these than a person in the forest, so it is worth holding both pictures — a skilled follower, and a device that keeps following something for you.
The same word同一個字 has moved into modern life已經進入現代生活 for machines and systems that do the following instead指那些負責「追蹤」的機器和系統: a GPS tracker on a car像車上的 GPS tracker（GPS 追蹤器）、 a fitness tracker on your wrist手上的 fitness tracker（健身追蹤器）、 a bug tracker at work that keeps a list of problems公司裡列出問題清單的 bug tracker（問題追蹤系統）、 a solar tracker that turns a panel to face the sun或會轉動面板去對準太陽的 solar tracker（太陽能追日器）. If a student meets 'tracker' today如果學生現在遇到 'tracker' 這個字 it is far more likely to be one of these than a person in the forest比較可能是這些東西，而不是森林裡的人 so it is worth holding both pictures所以兩種畫面都值得記住 — a skilled follower一種是技術高超的跟蹤者, and a device that keeps following something for you另一種是幫你持續追蹤某樣東西的裝置
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
trackernoun/ˈtɹækə(ɹ)/
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governmentpoliticsAgent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
- While she and Mr. Fetterman were often in different places, she would turn up at events early so she could shoot and post photos of the crowds, the lines, the people. At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on.
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Agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
- The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.
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In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
- Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are^([sic]) now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities[…]
- Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA musician who writes music in a tracker.
- You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA computer program that monitors something.
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computingengineeringmathematicsA computer program that monitors something.
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businessfinanceA tracker mortgage.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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An album with the specified number of tracks.
- "Typical" is the best song on this nine-tracker, and ironically, the record itself is good, but typical.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。