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rack

基本词汇

英 [ræk]

美 [ræk]

n.行李架；（放衣物、碗碟等的）架子；拷问台；折磨；（比赛开始前固定球位置的）三角框

vt.使痛苦；把...放在架子上；累计取得

名词: racker 过去式: racked 过去分词: racked 现在分词: racking 第三人称单数: racks

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n.(名词)

挂物架，行李（网）架，各种搁架，工具架
破坏力，破坏
饲草架
拉肢刑架
拷问台
【海】结绳架
【军】炸弹架
【海】餐具架
防止转动架
【机】齿条，齿轨
乳房，奶子

v.(动词)

尽力使用，过度使用，压榨
把（酒槽中的酒）榨出，将（酒）装瓶
对（犯人）拉肢拷问，对…施肢刑，使受极大痛苦，折磨
使过分紧张
把…放在架子上
累计（得分）
绞尽脑汁，冥思苦想

v.(动词)

vt. 使痛苦 inflict, torture
vt. 绞尽脑汁 make great mental efforts

rack的意思

noun

1. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

Synonym: single-foot

2. a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body

3. a support for displaying various articles

e.g. the newspapers were arranged on a rack

Synonym: stand

4. framework for holding objects

5. an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

Synonym: wheel

6. the destruction or collapse of something

e.g. wrack and ruin

Synonym: wrack

7. rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

verb

1. torture on the rack

2. seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block

3. work on a rack

e.g. rack leather

4. stretch to the limits

e.g. rack one's brains

5. torment emotionally or mentally

Synonym: tormenttortureexcruciate

6. draw off from the lees

e.g. rack wine

7. fly in high wind

8. run before a gale

Synonym: scud

9. go at a rack

e.g. the horses single-footed

Synonym: single-foot

10. obtain by coercion or intimidation

e.g. They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss
They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him

Synonym: extortsqueezegougewring

11. put on a rack and pinion

e.g. rack a camera

The spelling wrack is also used, mainly for meanings 2 and 3, and mainly in old-fashioned or American English. 亦拼作wrack，主要用于义项2和3，多见于过时英语或美国英语中。

1. 挂物架；搁物架
A rack is a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on.

rack在线翻译

e.g. My rucksack was too big for the luggage rack...
我的背包太大了，行李架上放不下。
e.g. You have to fight to reach the racks of clothes but the bargains are amazing.
你得费力往前挤才能够到那一架架的衣服，但那些打折品的确超值。

2. 折磨;使痛苦
If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain.

rack的翻译

e.g. His already infirm body was racked by high fever...
他已经很虚弱的身体受着高烧的折磨。
e.g. The country is now racked by three violent separatist movements.
这个国家目前正被3场激烈的分离主义运动所困扰。

3. 绞尽脑汁；苦苦思索
If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.

e.g. She began to rack her brains to remember what had happened at the nursing home.
她开始绞尽脑汁地回忆在疗养院发生的事。

4. （身体或心理）受到折磨
If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.

rack的解释

e.g. Only a year ago, he was on the rack with a heroin addiction that began when he was 13.
就在一年前，他还被13岁时开始染上的海洛因毒瘾所折磨。

5. 荒废；衰败
If you say that a place is going to rack and ruin, you are emphasizing that it is slowly becoming less attractive or less pleasant because no-one is bothering to look after it.

6. （衣服、商品等）现成的，成品的
Off-the-rack clothes or goods are made in large numbers, rather than being made specially for a particular person.

e.g. ...the same off-the-rack dress she's been wearing since the night before...
她从昨晚就一直穿着的同一件成品裙装
e.g. For our clothes, we went to a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, and we just picked it all off the rack.
至于衣服，我们到好莱坞大道上的一家商店里，都是直接挑现成的买。

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 off-the-peg