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。
- 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 rack toast 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 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。
- PHRASE (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.
- 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。
- 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.
- PHRASE (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.
- ...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。
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 off-the-peg