Rack /ræk/

noun

1

(often in compounds 常构成复合词) 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。

2

usually the 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.

习语

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。

verb

[VN] [often passive] 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。

(BrE) a racking cough

剧烈的咳嗽

习语

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。

短语动词

rack up sth

(especially NAmE) 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

The company racked up $200 million in losses in two years.

公司两年内损失累计达2亿元。

In ten years of boxing he racked up a record 176 wins.

在十年的拳击生涯中，他创纪录地累计获胜176次。

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