rack
rack 英 [ræk] 美 [ræk]
n. [机] 齿条；架子；拷问台 vi. 变形；随风飘；小步跑 vt. 折磨；榨取
进行时:racking 过去式:racked 过去分词:racked 第三人称单数:racks 名词复数:racks
- A rack is a device meant to hold something, or several things. A coat rack has hooks for hanging coats, and a magazine rack has shelves or slots to hold magazines.
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- n. [机] 齿条；架子；拷问台
- vi. 变形；随风飘；小步跑
- vt. 折磨；榨取
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1. I left it on a rack.
我把它放在行李架上。
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2. If you have only one sink, stack washed dishes in a dish rack and rinse them with a pan of hot water.
如果你只有一个水池，将洗好的餐具堆放在架子上，然后用一锅热水一起漂洗。
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3. It does exactly what it looks like it does: the rack pulls your body from end to end until your limbs are slowly plucked from their joints.
这个拷问台的用法跟你看到的图一模一样：它把你的身体向反方向拉扯，直到你的四肢慢慢地从关节连接处脱出来。
- rack (n.1) "frame with bars," c. 1300, possibly from Middle Dutch rec "framework," literally "something stretched out, related to recken (modern rekken) "stretch out," cognate with Old English reccan "to stretch out," from Proto-Germanic *rak- (source also of Old Saxon rekkian, Old Frisian reza, Old Norse rekja, Old High German recchen, German recken, Gothic uf-rakjan "to stretch out"), from PIE root *reg- "to move in a straight line" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line").
- rack (n.2) type of gait of a horse, 1580s, from rack (v.) "move with a fast, lively gait" 1520s in this sense (implied in racking), of unknown origin; perhaps from French racquassure "racking of a horse in his pace," itself of unknown origin. Or perhaps a variant of rock (v.1).
- rack (n.3) "clouds driven before the wind," c. 1300, also "rush of wind, collision, crash," originally a northern word, possibly from Old English racu "cloud" (or an unrecorded Scandinavian cognate of it), reinforced by Old Norse rek "wreckage, jetsam," or by influence of Old English wræc "something driven;" from Proto-Germanic *wrakaz, from PIE root *wreg- "to push, shove, drive" (see urge (v.)). Often confused with wrack (n.), especially in phrase rack and ruin (1590s). The distinction is that rack is "driven clouds;" wrack is "seaweed cast up on shore."
- rack (n.4) "cut of animal meat and bones," 1560s, of unknown origin; perhaps from some resemblance to rack (n.1). Compare rack-bone "vertebrae" (1610s).
- rack (v.) "to stretch out for drying," also "to torture on the rack," early 15c., from rack (n.1). Of other pains from 1580s. Figurative sense of "to torment" is from c. 1600. Meaning "raise above a fair level" (of rent, etc.) is from 1550s. Meaning "fit with racks" is from 1580s. Teenager slang meaning "to sleep" is from 1960s (rack (n.) was Navy slang for "bed" in 1940s). Related: Racked; racking. Rack up "register, accumulate, achieve" is first attested 1943 (in "Billboard"), probably from method of keeping score in pool halls.
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