racks

英 [ræks]

美 [ræks]

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
rack的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

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 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.
  1. 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 ison the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
  1. 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 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.
  1. ...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
  2. 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

双语例句

• Turn the bread out of the pans and cool it on wire racks.
  然后把面包取出来放在锅垫上放凉就行了。
• Approach the table and then walk to the right to reach the wine racks.
  方法的表，然后步行到右边达到酒架。
• One is practical, such as pen, pen hanging, cane, pillows, flower racks, etc.
  一类是实用型的，如笔筒、笔挂、手杖、枕头、花架等；
• Most people display magazines on coffee tables or in special magazine racks, but I've never understood this.
  多数人喜欢在茶几或特别的杂志摆放架上展示杂志，但是我一直都不明白这点。
• Rack layout for each rack type ( for example, management racks and compute racks)
  每种机架类型的机架布局（例如，管理机架和计算机架）
• Books on the exhibit racks are not for sale.
  陈列架上的书不出售。
• The middle connecting racks are closed along the guide rail to rotate freely.
  中间连接架沿导轨闭合自由旋转。
• Two knife racks hold her favourite knives.
  两个刀架上存放着她最心爱的刀具。
• Operating racks are the instrument to support the asepsis scarf and separate asepsis area.
  手术头架是手术中支撑无菌巾，分隔无菌区及有菌区的器械。
• Nearby, there may be a number of racks on which magnetic tapes and discs are stored.
  附近可能有许多机架，这里存放着磁带和磁盘。