rack
英 [ræk]
美 [ræk]
n. 支架; 架子; (旧时的)拉肢刑具; (羊、猪等带前肋的)颈脊肉
v. 使痛苦不堪; 使受折磨
复数：racks 过去分词：racked 过去式：racked 现在分词：racking 第三人称单数：racks
CET4CET6考研TOEFLIELTSTEM4TEM8计算机
Collins.2 / BNC.6006 / COCA.4151
短语动词
rack up
1. （企业）大量实现（利润、销售），惨遭（亏损）；（选手或运动队）频频获得（胜利）
短语用例
rack up sth
- 累积；聚集（某物）；累计（得分）
to collect sth, such as profits or losses in a business, or points in a competition- a vegetable/wine/plate/toast rack
蔬菜 / 酒瓶 / 盘碟 / 面包片架 - I looked through a rack of clothes at the back of the shop.
我看遍了挂在商店尽里面的一架子衣服。
- a vegetable/wine/plate/toast rack
习惯用语
n.
- go to rack and ruin
- 变得一团糟
to get into a bad condition - They let the house go to rack and ruin.
这房子越来越破旧，他们也不管。 off the rackoff the rackon the rack - 倍感压力；焦虑万分；痛苦不堪
feeling extreme pressure, anxiety or pain
v.
- rack your brain(s)
- 绞尽脑汁；冥思苦想
to think very hard or for a long time about sth - She racked her brains, trying to remember exactly what she had said.
她绞尽脑汁，想要回忆起她到底说过些什么话。
牛津词典
noun
- 支架；架子
a piece of equipment, usually made of metal or wooden bars, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on- a vegetable/wine/plate/toast rack
蔬菜 / 酒瓶 / 盘碟 / 面包片架 - I looked through a rack of clothes at the back of the shop.
我看遍了挂在商店尽里面的一架子衣服。
- a vegetable/wine/plate/toast rack
- （旧时的）拉肢刑具
an instrument of torture , used in the past for punishing and hurting people. Their arms and legs were tied to the wooden frame and then pulled in opposite directions, stretching the body. - （羊、猪等带前肋的）颈脊肉
a particular piece of meat that includes the front ribs and is cooked in the oven - （机器的）齿条，齿轨
a part of a machine that consists of a bar with parts that a wheel or gear can fit into
verb
- 使痛苦不堪；使受折磨
to make sb suffer great physical or mental pain- to be racked with/by guilt
深感内疚 - Her face was racked with pain.
她满脸的痛苦。 - Violent sobs racked her whole body.
剧烈的抽泣使她全身抽搐。 - a racking cough
剧烈的咳嗽
- to be racked with/by guilt
柯林斯词典
- See also:My rucksack was too big for the luggage rack...You have to fight to reach the racks of clothes but the bargains are amazing.roof racktoast rack
- See also:His already infirm body was racked by high fever...The country is now racked by three violent separatist movements....a teenager racked with guilt and anxiety.racking
- PHRASE 绞尽脑汁；苦苦思索
If yourackyourbrains, 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。
- She began to rack her brains to remember what had happened at the nursing home.
- PHRASE （身体或心理）受到折磨
If you say that someone ison 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***毒瘾所折磨。
- Only a year ago, he was on the rack with a heroin addiction that began when he was 13.
- 荒废；衰败
If you say that a placeis 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. - PHRASE （衣服、商品等）现成的，成品的
Off-the-rackclothes 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。
- ...the same off-the-rack dress she's been wearing since the night before...
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。
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 off-the-peg
英英释义
noun
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- a support for displaying various articles
- the newspapers were arranged on a rack
- framework for holding objects
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- the destruction or collapse of something
- wrack and ruin
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
verb
- torture on the rack
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- work on a rack
- rack leather
- stretch to the limits
- rack one's brains
- torment emotionally or mentally
- draw off from the lees
- rack wine
- fly in high wind
- run before a gale
- go at a rack
- the horses single-footed
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- 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
- put on a rack and pinion
- rack a camera
双语例句
- I put it right here on the luggage rack.
我就把它放在这儿的行李架上了。 - By clever planning, we were able to rack up the other team in the first half of the game.
凭着巧妙的计划，我们在比赛的上半场就击败了另一个队。 - My rucksack was too big for the luggage rack
我的背包太大了，行李架上放不下。 - Gloria slid an appraising eye over the rest of the rack before reaching for the dress.
格洛丽亚以审视的眼光向货架上其余的衣服扫了一遍，才伸手去拿那件连衣裙。 - I have been looking for a sissy bar and luggage rack, just like yours.
我一直在寻找一个娘娘腔的酒吧和行李架，就像你的。 - The cough seemed to rack his body.
他咳得全身震动。 - Don't you remember? You fixed up a new tie rack in the wardrobe last Sunday.
你不记得了吧？上星期天你在衣橱里装了一个新领带架。 - I think I would know if my hat was on the hat rack.
我想我会知道我的帽子是否在帽架上。 - It's a rack and pinion, and a good one at that.
它有一对齿条和齿轮，而且质量上乘。 - 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。