tract是什么意思

n. 束；大片土地，地带；小册子

n. (Tract)人名；(英)特拉克特

中文词源

tract 道，束，大片土地，地带

来自拉丁语 tractus,跑道，路径，来自拉丁语 trahere,拖，拉，使移动，来自 PIE*tragh,拖，拉，使移动，来自 PIE*dhragh,拉，拉出，词源同 draw,tract.引申词义一片土地，地带，道，束等。

tract 小册子

来自拉丁语 tractare,处理，操纵，对待，来自拉丁语 trahere 的反复格动词形式，词源同

tract (n.1): "area," mid-15c., "period or lapse of time," from Latin tractus "track, course, space, duration," lit, "a drawing out or pulling," from stem of trahere "to pull, draw," from PIE root *tragh- "to draw, drag, move" (cognates: Slovenian trag "trace, track," Middle Irish tragud "ebb;" perhaps with a variant form *dhragh-; see drag (v.)). The meaning "stretch of land or water" is first recorded 1550s. Specific U.S. sense of "plot of land for development" is recorded from 1912; tract housing attested from 1953.
tract (n.2): "little book, treatise" mid-12c., probably a shortened form of Latin tractatus "a handling, treatise, treatment," from tractare "to handle" (see treat (v.)). Related: Tractarian.

1、tract- => tract.2、stretch / pull of land or water, plot of land for development.3、little book, treatise, a handling.

2. Water is ideal to flush the kidneys and the urinary tract.: 用水清洗肾脏和尿道最理想不过。

3. She produced a feminist tract, "Comments on Birth-Control", in 1930.: 她1930年写了篇女性主义的短文《论节育》。