rack

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

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使痛苦

   inflict, torture

2. vt. 绞尽脑汁

   make great mental efforts

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 挂物架，行李（网）架，各种搁架，工具架
2. 破坏力，破坏
3. 饲草架
4. 拉肢刑架
5. 拷问台
6. 【海】结绳架
7. 【军】炸弹架
8. 【海】餐具架
9. 防止转动架
10. 【机】齿条，齿轨
11. <俚>乳房，奶子

v. 动词

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

英英释义

Noun:

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;

   "wrack and ruin"
   

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

5. a support for displaying various articles;

   "the newspapers were arranged on a rack"
   

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

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

Verb:

1. go at a rack;

   "the horses single-footed"
   

2. stretch to the limits;

   "rack one's brains"
   

3. put on a rack and pinion;

   "rack a camera"
   

4. 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"
   

5. run before a gale

6. fly in high wind

7. draw off from the lees;

   "rack wine"
   

8. torment emotionally or mentally

9. work on a rack;

   "rack leather"
   

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

11. torture on the rack

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He put his bag on the luggage rack.
   他把包放在行李架上。
2. He put his shoes on the rack.
   他把鞋放在架子上。
3. The famous ancient Chinese politician ShangYang was put on the rack.
   中国古代著名的政治家商鞅被施以拉肢之刑。
4. We will all be on the rack until the exam results are published.
   在考试结果公布之前,我们将一直焦虑不安。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. I was racked with doubt and pain.
   我满腹疑虑,痛苦万分。
2. You should rack these bottles of wine.
   你应该把那几瓶酒放到架子上。
3. Last year, they racked up profits of more than two billion dollars.
   去年他们累计赚了二十多亿美元。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The pain racked him.
   痛苦折磨着他。
2. Conscience racks me.
   我受良心责备。
3. The cough seemed to rack his body.
   他咳得全身震动。
4. The storm racked the town.
   风暴在全城肆虐。
5. He racked no rents to maintain the expenses of his establishment.
   他不向租户索取过高的租金来维持建设的开支。
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6. He was racked by remorse.
   他悔恨交加。
7. She was racked by doubts.
   她满腹疑虑,痛苦极了。
8. They have been racked by bitter quarrels.
   激烈的争吵使他们不得安生。

经典引文

• A white rack of cloud hovered.

  出自： W. Styron

• Cases..strapped to the rack at the rear of the car.

  出自： W. Boyd

• Mrs Williams filled the toast rack.

  出自： P. Carey

• Hunters will keep their waterfowl guns in the rack.

  出自：Field Stream

• His joints were all aching..as from a..sojourn on the rack.

  出自： F. King

• The garden is going to rack, the gardener Only comes three days.

  出自： L. MacNeice

• A..house..going to rack and ruin for want of looking after.

  出自： R. Rendell

• An Englishman who had been racked..by the Spanish Inquisition.

  出自： J. Bronowski

• Shrimpy racked up five..wins.

  出自：Boxing News

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

rack brain (v.+n.)

绞尽脑汁 think very deeply or for a long time
rack one's brain
I've racked my brains all day and I still can't remember who was Prime Minister in 1952.

我冥思苦想了整整一天,但我仍然想不起1952年谁任首相。
Tom racked his brains during the test trying to solve the problem.

汤姆在考试时绞尽脑汁想解出那道题。
We must rack our brains for some answers to his questions.

我们必须绞尽脑汁设法回答他的问题。
I've racked my brains, but I have not yet to come up with any solution to the problem.

我已经绞尽脑汁了,但是还没给那个问题找到任何答案。

rack up (v.+adv.)

击倒〔打败〕(某人) cause (sb) to fall; defeat (sb) completely
rack sb/sth ⇔ up
He racked up his opponent with a well-placed blow.

他一拳击中了对手的要害,把他击倒在地。
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。

rack with (v.+prep.)

遭受极大的… suffer severely from (pain or sorrow)
rack sb/sth with sth
She is racked with anxiety.

她极为焦虑不安。
His body was racked with pain.

他全身疼痛难熬。
It was a mercy that she died, for she had been racked with pain through her last long illness.

她的死是凄楚的,因为她最后一次久病一直使她痛苦不堪。
After an hour of talk, he would be racked with headaches.

谈了一个小时后,他就会头痛欲裂。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• rack one's body 全身痛苦
• rack one's brain〔head,wit〕 绞尽脑汁

～+副词

• rack up 击倒〔打败〕(某人)

～+介词

• rack by 被…所苦
• rack for 为…受苦
• rack with pain 痛苦不堪

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. rack的基本意思是“使人遭受难以忍受的痛苦或折磨”,其形象如同在被拷打时扭动身体的状态。常用于感情上的痛苦或疾病的侵扰。
2. rack作及物动词,可接名词、代词作宾语,常用于被动结构,其后常接介词by或with。
3. rack还可作“绞尽脑汁”解,常与one's brain连用,多用于口语中。

近反义词

【近义词】

• framework 框架
• shelf 架子
• stand 站立
• torment 苦痛
• shake 摇动
• rock 岩石
• store 商店
• shelve 放在架子上
• beset 包围
• afflict 使苦恼
• frame 骨架
• holder 持有者
• support 支持
• torture 拷问
• hurt 损害
• pain 痛苦
• agonize (使)极度痛苦...
• harass 使疲乏
• punish 惩罚
• distress 不幸
• strain 拉紧
• single-foot 栏跑
• wring 拧
• gouge 用圆凿子挖
• extort 勒索
• squeeze 挤压
• scud 疾驶
• wrack 破坏
• excruciate 使苦恼
• wheel 方向盘