racks
n. 行李架( rack的名詞複數 ); 支架; 刑架; (羊、豬等帶前肋的)頸脊
v. 使痛苦,使焦慮,絞盡腦汁( rack的第三人稱單數 )
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...
我的揹包太大了,行李架上放不下。
You have to fight to reach the racks of clothes but the bargains are amazing.
你得費力往前擠才能夠到那一架架的衣服,但那些打折品的確超值。
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...
他已經很虛弱的身體受著高燒的折磨。
The country is now racked by three violent separatist movements.
這個國家目前正被3場激烈的分離主義運動所困擾。
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.
她開始絞盡腦汁地回憶在療養院發生的事。
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,他還被13歲時開始染上的海洛因毒癮所折磨。
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...
她從昨晚就一直穿著的同一件成品裙裝
For our clothes, we went to a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, and we just picked it all off the rack.
至於衣服,我們到好萊塢大道上的一家商店裡,都是直接挑現成的買。
Two knife racks hold her favourite knives.
兩個刀架上存放著她最心愛的刀具。
You have to fight to reach the racks of clothes but the bargains are amazing.
你得費力往前擠才能夠到那一架架的衣服,但那些打折品的確超值。
There are racks of musty clothing and piles of junk.
有幾架子發黴的衣物和成堆的廢舊雜物。
Conscience racks me.
我受良心責備。
The furniture was old and comfortable - leather couches, newspaper racks, priceless antique tables.
傢俱古老而舒適 —— 有皮靠背椅, 報紙架, 無價的古董桌子.