| 释义 |
back trail Chiefly U.S.
[back a.]
= back track.
1832Polit. Examiner (Shelbyville, Ky.) 14 July 1/4 The whites..discovered that they had taken the back trail. 1869C. L. Brace New West viii. 99 There's that darn'd mule on the back trail agin! 1908Mulford Orphan xi. 132 One of his men..knelt behind a rock, his rifle covering the back trail. 1916‘Anzac’ On Anzac Trail 105 Our little party now came to the conclusion that it was time to take the back trail.
Hence ˈback-trail v. trans. and intr.
1907R. Dunn Shameless Diary of Explorer xix. 260 It was swim or back trail, if we didn't like it. 1924A. J. Small Frozen Gold i. 33 They back trailed him as far as Five Fingers and there the trail ended. 1926R. A. Bennet Boss of the Diamond A 163 He circled his hat in a full-armed overhead sweep, as a signal for them to back-trail. |