| 釋義 |
rackn. 1
1. an instrument of torture stretching victim’s joints拉肢刑架。
△Lr.5.3.315 (314): “O,let him pass,hehates him/ That would upon the rack of this toughworld / Stretch him out longer.”(Stretch him out lon-ger:?prolong his lifetime;
?extend his body fur-ther by the rack.)啊，讓他去了吧，誰(shuí)要是強(qiáng)拉他在這刑架一般冷酷無(wú)情的人間再多待一些時(shí)間，一定會(huì)遭他痛恨。
△Mer.3.2.24: “Let me choose,/ For as I am,I live uponthe rack.”讓我選吧；照我現(xiàn)在這樣，簡(jiǎn)直是上了拷問(wèn)臺(tái)。
2. engine of torture,instrument of torture拷問(wèn)架，刑具。
△1H.IV.2.4.266 (237): “or all the racks in theworld，”或者全世界所有的刑具。
△1H.VI.2.5.3: “Evenlike a man new haled from the rack,/So fare mylimbs with long imprisonment；”由于長(zhǎng)期監(jiān)禁，我這四肢疼得就像一個(gè)剛從拷問(wèn)架拖下來(lái)的人一樣。
3. engine of torture,i.e. extreme pain拷問(wèn)架，（指）極大痛苦。
△Oth.3.3.336 (335):“thou hast set me on therack.”你拉我上了拷問(wèn)架。(又譯：你把我害得好苦。)
rackn. 2 cloud-mass,drifting clouds云團(tuán)，浮云。
△Ham.2.2.514 (484):“the rack stand still.”烏云靜止不動(dòng)。
rackvt.
1. torture by stretching the limbs對(duì)…施以拉肢酷刑。
△2H.VI.3.1.376: “Say he be taken,racked,andtortured,/ I know no pain they can inflict upon him /Will make him say I moved him to those arms.”假如他被抓住了，即使受到拉肢刑和拷打，我知道不管他們對(duì)他施加什么酷刑也不會(huì)使他招出是我唆使他起兵作亂的。
2. torment,put to pain折磨，使受痛苦。
△Tw.5.1.229(219): “How have the hours racked and tortured me,/ Since I have lost thee!” 自從我不見(jiàn)了你之后，我過(guò)的是多么痛苦難熬的日子??！
3. harass by extortion,impoverish by extortion,re-duce to poverty by extortionate levies 以勒索騷擾，以勒索使貧困，以苛捐雜稅使得貧困。
△2H. vi. 1. 3. 131 (128):“The commons hast thou racked；”你用強(qiáng)征勒索把平民百姓弄得精窮。
4. extend to its extreme,exaggerate,distort極力擴(kuò)大，夸大，歪曲。
△Ado.4.1.221 (219): “but being lackedand lost,/ Why then we rack the value；”但是一旦缺少它、失掉它，好了，我們就會(huì)竭力夸大它的價(jià)值。 rack[r?k]n.擱板，行李架，發(fā)射架，炸彈架，臺(tái)v.使飛機(jī)突然轉(zhuǎn)彎
◇ be on the rack十分焦慮不安
‖ rack controls炸彈架控制裝置
rack jobbers供應(yīng)超級(jí)市場(chǎng)的批發(fā)商
rack rail齒軌
rack rent高額租金，高額地租
rack-renter收取高額租金者
rack switch炸彈開關(guān) |