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

• Then these parts are ejected with a variety of lifters, cams, racks, poppit valves, screws, and cylinders.
  然后，这些部件可以用多种方法顶出，如升降机、凸轮、架台、提升阀、螺栓结构和汽缸结构。
• The racks were crowded with new dresses.
  衣架上挂满了新衣服。
• However, this policy increases the cost of writes because a write needs to transfer blocks to multiple racks.
  但是，这个简单策略加大了写的代价，因为一个写操作需要传输block到多个机架。
• The city is notoriously short on bike lanes, bike paths and bike racks.
  令人不快的是，洛杉矶的自行车道和自行车停放架都很少，而且在主干道上骑车是违法的。
• I was hitting the bars on the bottom of the squat racks but still squatted the weight up.
  我蹲到碰到深蹲架最下面的杆了，但仍能将这个重量蹲举起来。
• The three clung to their seats as bags cascaded down from the luggage racks.
  三个人紧紧抓住座位，包从行李架上哗啦啦落下来。
• The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks.
  其余的船舱装着不少五百磅重的炸弹，都小心翼翼地放在垫过的架子上。
• They look along racks of bright clothes.
  他们顺着挂架上琳琅满目的衣服看去。
• 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。
• She has set up in racks of clothing& suits, dresses, skirts, and blouses.
  她设立了衣服架？？有外套，上衣，裙子和衬衫。