| 释义 |
ves·tige
\ˈvestij, -tēj\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: French, from Latin vestigium
1.
a. : a trace, mark, or visible sign left by a material thing (as a building) formerly present but now otherwise lost or unknown
< digging for the vestiges of past civilizations >
< fossil bones and other vestiges >
b. : the mark of a foot left on the earth : footstep, track
2.
a. : a remaining bit that constitutes a memorial or trace of something formerly present or assumed to be present
< a manner showing vestiges of past culture >
< could detect vestiges of beauty in her aging face >
broadly : a minute amount : the smallest quantity or trace
< lost all remaining vestiges of self-control — Evelyn Barkins >
< the lack of a vestige of hair on his pate — Leonard Wibberley >
< not a vestige of sugar in the house >
b. : a small and degenerate or imperfectly developed bodily part or organ that remains from one more fully developed in an earlier stage of the individual, in a past generation, or in closely related forms |