rack
n. 行李架; 支架; 刑架; (羊、猪等带前肋的)颈脊
vt. 使痛苦,使焦虑; 剥削,榨取; 用刑拘折磨
A rack is a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on.
My rucksack was too big for the luggage rack...
我的背包太大了,行李架上放不下。
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。
If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain.
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。
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。
If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
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。
If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
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。
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.
Off-the-rack clothes or goods are made in large numbers, rather than being made specially for a particular person.
...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
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。
1. framework for holding objects
2. rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
3. the destruction or collapse of something;
4. an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
5. a support for displaying various articles;
6. a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
1. go at a rack;
2. stretch to the limits;
3. put on a rack and pinion;
4. obtain by coercion or intimidation;
5. run before a gale
6. fly in high wind
7. draw off from the lees;
8. torment emotionally or mentally
9. work on a rack;
10. seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
11. torture on the rack
rack out &I{【俚语】}
去睡觉或睡会儿觉
rack up 【非正式用语】
积累或得分
go to rack (或 wrack) and ruin
走向毁灭,弄得一团糟;陷入失修状态
off the rack
(北美)。 同 off the peg (见 peg)
rack (或 wrack) one's brains (或 brain)
冥思苦想,绞尽脑汁
rack something up
积累;取得(某物,尤指得分,数量)
on the rack
处于重压下
I rack my brain trying to remember the answer.
我绞尽脑汁想答案.
Take your roof rack off your car when you aren t using it, for more savings.
另外,在你没用到车顶架时,将它拆下可以让你省得更多.
The cough seemed to rack his body.
他咳得全身震动.
Now your phone can help you rack up savings all over town!
现在你的手机能帮你在全镇到处省钱了!
His mother sat on the back, grasping the rack without a sound.
母亲默默地坐在自行车后座上, 抓着车座一声不响.