racked是什么意思？

racked

英['rækt] 美['rækt]

• v. 使痛苦，使焦虑，绞尽脑汁( rack的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• They have been racked by bitter quarrels. 激烈的争吵使他们不得安生。
• She was racked by doubts. 她满腹疑虑, 痛苦极了。
• He was racked by remorse. 他悔恨交加。
• 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公司的开支。
• The storm racked the town. 风暴在全城肆虐。
• The pain racked him. 痛苦折磨着他.
• A toothache racked my jaw. 牙疼使我的下巴难受极了.
• Bush has racked up victories in another five states. 布什在另外五个州又获得了胜利.
• 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。
• 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。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  挂物架；搁物架
  A rack is a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on.
  例句
  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。
• VERB
  折磨;使痛苦
  If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain.
  例句
  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。
• PHRASE
  绞尽脑汁；苦苦思索
  If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
  例句
  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.
  例句
  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。
• PHRASE
  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.
  例句
  ...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。