The spelling wrack is also used, mainly for meanings 2 and 3, and mainly in old-fashioned or American English. 亦拼作wrack，主要用于义项2和3，多见于过时英语或美国英语中。
1 N-COUNT 挂物架；搁物架 A rack is a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on. 挂物架；搁物架
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My rucksack was too big for the luggage rack.
我的背包太大了，行李架上放不下。
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You have to fight to reach the racks of clothes but the bargains are amazing.
你得费力往前挤才能够到那一架架的衣服，但那些打折品的确超值。
2See also:roof rack toast rack
3 VERB [usually passive] 折磨;使痛苦 If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain. 折磨;使痛苦
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His already infirm body was racked by high fever. [be V-ed + by/with]
他已经很虚弱的身体受着高烧的折磨。
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The country is now racked by three violent separatist movements. [be V-ed by/with n]
这个国家目前正被3场激烈的分离主义运动所困扰。
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...a teenager racked with guilt and anxiety. [VERB-ed]
被愧疚和不安所折磨的少年
SYN torture, distress, torment, harass
5 PHRASE 绞尽脑汁；苦苦思索 If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something. 绞尽脑汁；苦苦思索
6 PHRASE （身体或心理）受到折磨 If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally. （身体或心理）受到折磨 [journalism]
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Only a year ago, he was on the rack with a heroin addiction that began when he was 13.
就在一年前，他还被13岁时开始染上的海洛因毒瘾所折磨。
SYN in difficulties, suffering, in trouble, having problems
7 PHRASE 荒废；衰败 If you say that a place is going to rack and ruin, you are emphasizing that it is slowly becoming less attractive or less pleasant because no-one is bothering to look after it. 荒废；衰败 [emphasis]
8 PHRASE （衣服、商品等）现成的，成品的 Off-the-rack clothes or goods are made in large numbers, rather than being made specially for a particular person. （衣服、商品等）现成的，成品的 [US]
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...the same off-the-rack dress she's been wearing since the night before.
她从昨晚就一直穿着的同一件成品裙装
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For our clothes, we went to a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, and we just picked it all off the rack.
至于衣服，我们到好莱坞大道上的一家商店里，都是直接挑现成的买。
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 off-the-peg
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