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rack

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ldoce_279_drack1 /ræk/ ●●○ noun [countableC]  
1  DTa frame or shelf that has bars or hooks on which you can put things 〔带有横档或钩子的〕架子，搁物架
 a wine rack
酒架
 a magazine rack
杂志架
→ luggage rack, roof-rack →5  See picture of clothes rack 衣服架, spice rack 调料架
2  the rack SHSCa piece of equipment that was used in the past to make people suffer severe pain by stretching their bodies 拉肢刑架〔旧时一种酷刑刑具〕
 Thousands of people were tortured on the rack.
曾有数千人受过拉肢酷刑。
3  on the rack SUFFER British EnglishBrE informal in a very difficult situation 处于困境[窘境]
 The company is now well and truly on the rack.
公司现在彻底陷入危机。
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on the rack• I'd put the bike on the rack at the back and secured it with a bungy strap.• His characteristic attitude is one of close scrutiny and interrogation; he puts his documents on the rack, as it were.• It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests.• There were only face towels left on the rack.• When the fire is hot, lay the mushrooms on the rack.• The pound, however, was still on the rack.• He himself was beginning to ache as though stretched on the rack, with the worst still to come.• When the Babbel incident blew up, Liverpool really were on the rack.
4  go to rack and ruin BADif a building goes to rack and ruin, it gradually gets into a very bad condition because no one has looked after it 〔建筑因缺乏维护而〕破损，毁坏
 The house had been left to go to rack and ruin.
房子已无人看管，日渐破败。
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go to rack and ruin• The old farmhouse had gone to rack and ruin.• He's let his father's old house go to rack and ruin.• First they let the house go to rack and ruin, then the garden; now they were sheltering hippies.• It seems that the government is prepared to let all our hospitals and schools go to rack and ruin.• Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin.
5. American EnglishAmEDSO a three-sided frame used for arranging the balls at the start of a game of snooker or pool 〔斯诺克台球或落袋台球开局时用于排列球的〕三角框
6. a rack of lamb/pork DFFa fairly large piece of meat from the side of an animal, that contains several rib bones 羔羊/猪肋排骨
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a rack of lamb/pork• The waiter lifted the salver to reveal a rack of lamb surrounded by courgettes and tiny new potatoes.
7  off the rack American EnglishAmE if you can buy something off the rack, you can buy it in a shop rather than having it specially made 成品的；现成的 SYN British English off the peg
 A lot of designer clothes are now available off the rack.
现在很多名牌服装都有成品卖了。
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off the rack• High ready-to-wear prices, but none the less gowns available off the rack.• What I hear you saying is that I have lived my life as if I bought my clothes off the rack.• Each time I said I liked one, this guy pulls it off the rack.• Both of those editions were pulled off the racks by supermarket chains that had received complaints from customers.
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rack• Let the cake cool on a rack for ten minutes.• There are racks and racks of romantic writers and readers online.• a bicycle rack• Swap for rack mounted sound module.• a spice rack• Make sure the pans are in the center of the rack to allow heat to circulate around them.• What I hear you saying is that I have lived my life as if I bought my clothes off the rack.• When the fire is hot, lay the mushrooms on the rack.• There is a pool then a typical rack to Inverlaidnan Bridge.• Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet.
rack2 verb  
1  [transitiveT]SUFFER to make someone suffer great mental or physical pain 使〔精神或肉体〕遭受巨大痛苦
 Great sobs racked her body.
她哭得全身抽搐。
be racked by/with something
 Her face was racked with pain.
她痛得脸都变形了。
 Liza was racked by guilt.
莉莎深感内疚。
n Grammar
Rack is often passive in this meaning.
2  rack your brains THINK ABOUTto try very hard to remember or think of something 绞尽脑汁；冥思苦想
 I racked my brains, trying to remember his name.
我绞尽脑汁想记起他的名字。
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rack your brains• I've racked my brains, but at my age there are precious few left to rack.• Desperately, Irvin racked his brains, but there was nothing he could tell them.• There was a silence in the room as we all simultaneously racked our brains for a missing disease.• They sat in silence, racking their brains for the name of the road.• I waved back, racking my brains to remember who she was.• Which left Fabia racking her brains to think of how next best to get through to the woman.• She racked her brains, trying to remember what David had said.• Rachel racked her brains, trying to remember what Jamie had said of him - ruthless, living only for his ambition.
3 rack something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v informal PPVDSto get a number or amount of something, especially a number of points in a competition 取得〔数目或数量〕；〔尤指比赛〕得〔分〕
 He racked up 41 points.
他得了41分。
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rack up• Well you wan na, you wan na check this out and see if you can rack your brain up.
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rack• Other times he thrashed all night, thinking nothing, his body cramping, dry, racked, beside itself.• Without it, she was racked by a feeling of utter desolation.• If Liza had been racked by guilt, now, in a way, so was she.• Sharp pains racked his wasting body.• Everyone could feel the abnormal strains that were now racking the monied world.• Adobe racked up $ 46. 9 million in licensing revenues during its latest quarter.• Her face was racked with pain and it was clear that she was very ill.
racked ... body• A violent shudder racked his powerful body.• He swallowed deeply and another great shudder racked his body.
From Longman Business Dictionary
rackrack /ræk/ verb
→ rack up something
Origin rack1
1. (1300-1400) Middle Dutch rec “frame”
2. Old English wræc “unhappiness, punishment”
rack1 nounrack2 verb →n GRAMMAR1
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6006 COCA: 4151
rack

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + RACK | RACK + VERB | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤display, storage陳列架；貯藏架▸➤cooling, drying冷卻架；乾燥架▸➤bicycle, bike (informal) , coat, luggage, magazine, plate, spice, toast, towel, vegetable, wine, etc.自行車架、衣架、行李架、雜誌架、盤碟架、調料架、烤麪包片架、毛巾架、蔬菜架、酒瓶架等▸➤roof車頂行李架◇We mounted the canoe onto the car's roof rack.我們把獨木舟安放在小汽車的車頂行李架上。VERB + RACK➤hang sth on, put sth on, put sth onto, put sth in, put sth into, stack sth in, stack sth on, store sth in, store sth on把⋯掛在架子上；把⋯放在架子上面；把⋯放在架子裏面；把⋯堆放在架子裏；把⋯堆放在架子上；把⋯貯存在架子裏；把⋯貯存在架子上◇The wine is stored in special racks.酒貯存在專門的架子上。RACK + VERB➤contain sth, hold sth架子上放置⋯◇The racks along the wall held most of the costumes.大多數演出服都擱在靠牆的架子上。PREPOSITION➤in a/the rack在架子裏◇He replaced the CD in the rack.他把光盤又放回到架子裏。➤on a/the rack在架子上◇Spread the flowers out to dry on a rack.把花鋪在架子上晾乾。➤rack for放⋯的架子◇a rack for storing apples貯存蘋果用的架子➤rack of一架子⋯◇racks of magazines一架架雜誌
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6006 COCA: 4151
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 6006 COCA: 4151

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