rack是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a frame or shelf, often formed of bars, that is used to hold things -- 架子；擱物架

  • a vegetable rack 擺放蔬菜的貨架

  • a plate rack 盤碟架

  • a luggage rack 行李架

• 1 a large piece of meat cut from the neck of a sheep or pig -- （羊或豬）頸肉

  • The butcher prepared a rack of pork. 那個屠夫準備了一塊豬頸肉。

  • We're having rack of lamb for dinner. 我們今天晚餐會煮羊頸肉。

• 2 a bar with tooth-like parts along one edge that fits into a pinion (= a wheel with tooth-like parts) allowing change between circular and straight-line movement -- 齒條；齒軌；齒棒

• 3 a state of decay -- 糟糕透頂（的狀態）；破損，損壞

  • The whole farm was going to rack and ruin. 整個農場逐漸變得破敗不堪。

• 4 to cause physical or mental pain, or trouble, to someone or something -- 使肉體（或精神上）受巨大痛苦；折磨

  • Even at the end, when cancer racked his body, he was calm and cheerful. 即使在最後，當他的身體備受癌症病魔摧殘的時候，他仍然鎮定自若、樂觀開朗。

  • The dog was already racked by/with the pains of old age. 那隻狗已經又老又病，痛苦不堪。

  • He was racked by/with doubts/guilt. 他被疑慮／內疚所折磨。