Rack
[ræk]
解释:
(noun.) a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately.
(noun.) a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body.
(noun.) a support for displaying various articles; 'the newspapers were arranged on a rack'.
(noun.) framework for holding objects.
(noun.) an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims.
(noun.) rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton.
(verb.) torture on the rack.
(verb.) seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block.
(verb.) work on a rack; 'rack leather'.
(verb.) stretch to the limits; 'rack one's brains'.
(verb.) draw off from the lees; 'rack wine'.
(verb.) fly in high wind.
(verb.) put on a rack and pinion; 'rack a camera'.
录入:斯威尼--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Same as Arrack.
(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.
(n.) A wreck; destruction.
(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds.
(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace; -- said of a horse.
(n.) A fast amble.
(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine.
(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something.
(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons.
(a.) An instrument for bending a bow.
(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid.
(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts.
(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc.
(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot.
(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed.
(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads.
(a.) A distaff.
(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it.
(a.) That which is extorted; exaction.
(v. t.) To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints.
(v. t.) To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish.
(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion.
(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore.
(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
校对:普拉特
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Torture, torment, anguish, agony, pang, extreme pain.[2]. Crib, manger.[3]. Neck (of mutton), crag.[4]. Mist, vapor.[5]. (Naut.) Fairleader.
v. a. [1]. Torture, torment, distress, agonize, excruciate, pain extremely.[2]. Stretch, strain, force, wrest.[3]. Draw off (from sediment).
编辑:维姬
同义词及反义词:
[See TORTURE]
艾达整理
解释:
v.t. to strain or draw off from the lees as wine.—ns. Rack′ing-can a vessel from which wine can be drawn without disturbing the lees; Rack′ing-cock -fau′cet a cock used in drawing off liquour from a cask; Rack′ing-pump a pump for the transfer of liquor to casks.
n. thin or broken clouds drifting across the sky.—v.i. to drift to drive.
n. the gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop.—n. Rack′er a horse that moves in this gait.
n. same as Wrack=Wreck—now used only in the phrases Go to rack Go to rack and ruin.
n. same as Arrack.—Rack punch a punch made with arrack.
n. an instrument for racking or extending: an engine for stretching the body in order to extort a confession hence (fig.) extreme pain anxiety or doubt: a framework on which articles are arranged as hat-rack plate-rack letter-rack &c.: the grating above a manger for hay: (mech.) a straight bar with teeth to work into those of a wheel pinion or endless screw for converting a circular into a rectilinear motion or vice vers: (Scot.) the course in curling.—v.t. to stretch forcibly: to strain: to stretch on the rack or wheel: to torture: to exhaust: to worry agitate: to wrest overstrain: to practise rapacity: to extort: to place in a rack or frame: (naut.) to seize together with cross-turns as two ropes.—n. Rack′er one who tortures.—adj. Rack′ing tormenting.—ns. Rack′-rail a railway having cogs which work into similar cogs on a locomotive; Rack′-rent an annual rent stretched to the utmost value of the thing rented exorbitant rent.—v.t. to subject to such rents.—ns. Rack′-rent′er one who exacts or pays rack-rent; Rack′-stick a stick for stretching a rope; Rack′-tail a bent arm in a repeating clock connected with the striking mechanism; Rack′work a strong bar with cogs to correspond with similar cogs on a wheel which either moves or is moved by the bar.—Live at rack and manger to live sumptuously and wastefully; On the rack stretched upon it: tortured by anxiety; Put to the rack to put to the torture of the rack: to subject to keen suffering.
n. a young rabbit.
n. (prov.) the neck and spine of a fore-quarter of veal or mutton: the neck of mutton or pork.
克莱奥校对
娱乐性解释:
To dream of a rack, denotes the uncertainty of the outcome of some engagement which gives you much anxious thought.
比安卡手打
娱乐性解释:
n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy and is now held in light popular esteem.
整理:威廉
例句:
- How little do you know the effect of rack punch! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- There may be apathetic exhaustion after the rack. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The diagrams, the violin-case, and the pipe-rack--even the Persian slipper which contained the tobacco--all met my eyes as I glanced round me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Waiter, rack punch. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- A quick glance of her practised eye showed her, even through the deep dark shadow, the sculls in a rack against the red-brick garden-wall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Is your poor brother recovered of his rack-punch? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Carefully I picked my way between and over the soldiers until I had gained the rack at the far side of the room. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Amelia thinks, and thinks, and racks her brain, to find some means of increasing the small pittance upon which the household is starving. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The heating element is of the radiant type, made of flat resistance wire wound on mica and placed in a vertical position between the two bread racks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The racks without your cages are filled with blades. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- There were many fishing boats along the quay and nets were spread on racks. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- There were racks of rockets standing to be touched off to call for help from the artillery or to signal with if the telephone wires were cut. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- I went into one of the racks and undressed. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Some fearful hours went over me: indescribably was I torn, racked and oppressed in mind. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The sound by nature undergo these tortures, and are racked, shaken, shattered; their beauty and bloom perish, but life remains untouched. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He wanted to train me to an elevation I could never reach; it racked me hourly to aspire to the standard he uplifted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- At the foot of the bed, half sitting, half kneeling, his face buried in the clothes, was a young man, whose frame was racked by his sobs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Pasteur was racked with fears alternating w ith hopes, his anxiety growing more intense as the virulence of the inoculations increased. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- It was all over before I arrived; so my curiosity was not so dreadfully racked as _yours_ seems to have been. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- My own heart was racked by regrets and remorse. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It is so tormenting, so racking, and it burns away our strength with its flame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- And presently, Margaret, racking her brain to talk to Fanny, heard her mother and Mrs. Thornton plunge into the interminable subject of servants. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Racking back coals. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Every other child must be racking his heart. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- The divorced mates, Spirit and Substance, were hard to re-unite: they greeted each other, not in an embrace, but a racking sort of struggle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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