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单词 to track up
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to track up
c. U.S. To leave a track or trail of footprints upon (a floor); to make a track with (dirt or snow) carried on one's feet. Also, to track up (a floor, etc.); to bring in (dirt, etc.) on one's feet (also const. prepositions). Also figurative.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > trace or vestige > [verb (intransitive)] > leave a track or trail of footprints
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1838 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron xviii. 127 Miss Neely, one buckra woman want for track up all de clean floor.
1866 Harper's Mag. Jan. 271/2 The snow had been tracked in till it lay pretty thick on the floor.
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks iii. 21 ‘Stand still there!’ she called to me..‘and don't come in to track my floor’.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People i. 9 Sweep out that snow you've tracked in.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ vi. 117 There's going to be a law passed about tracking mud inside the railing.
1915 Cent. Mag. Aug. 496/2 A good live boy..is a drug in the market. There seems to be a general feeling that they track in dirt.
1919 J. Reed Ten Days that shook World i. 11 The mud underfoot was deep, slippery and clinging, tracked everywhere by heavy boots.
1944 S. Bellow Dangling Man 100 Tracked your mat up. I'm sorry.
1950 M. Mead Male & Female xvi. 338 Floors do not need to be polished so often when there are no children's feet to track them up.
1980 R. Hill Killing Kindness ix. 87 I was trying not to track my work into the house too much.
1981 Farmstead Mag. Winter 50/2 Birds really use the trees to nest in, and small rabbits revel in tracking up fresh snow.
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