n.

1. 架子；掛物架；（行李）網架[C]
   The racks were crowded with new clothes.

   架子上掛滿了新衣服。

2. 肢刑架，拷問臺[the S]
   He lay there groaning like a prisoner stretched out on the rack.

   他躺在那裡呻吟，就像一個囚犯被綁在肢刑架上。

3. 極大的苦痛，折磨[the S]
4. 【機】齒條[C]，裝配齒輪之齒棒
5. （風暴等的）破壞力[the S]
   Many trees were twisted by the rack of the storms.

   很多樹被風暴摧折。

vt.

1. 把……放在架子上
2. 對……施肢刑
3. 使受極大痛苦，折磨
   He was racked by doubts.

   疑慮折磨著他。

4. 盡力使用；過度使用
   Racking his brains, he couldn't think of a single example.

   他絞盡腦汁卻連一個例子都想不出來。

n.

1. 【古】毀滅，荒廢

n.

1. a framework for holding or storing things.
   ▸a vertically barred holder for animal fodder.
2. a cogged or toothed bar or rail engaging with a wheel or pinion, or using pegs to adjust the position of something.
3. (the rack) historical an instrument of torture consisting of a frame on which the victim was tied by the wrists and ankles and stretched.
4. N. Amer. informal a bed.
5. a triangular frame for positioning pool balls.
   ▸a single game of pool.
6. N. Amer. a set of deer's antlers.
7. a digital effects unit for a guitar or other instrument.

v.

1. (also wrack) cause extreme pain or distress to.
   ▸archaic oppress (a tenant) by exacting excessive rent.
   ▸historical torture on the rack.
2. place in or on a rack.
3. (rack something up) accumulate or achieve something.

n.

v.

1. (of a horse) move with such a gait.
2. rack off
   Austral. informal go away.

n.

n.

v.

n.

v.

[名]

1. 齒條。