| 单词 | go to rack and ruin |
| 释义 | go to rack and ruingo to rack and ruin BADif a building goes to rack and ruin, it gradually gets into a very bad condition because no one has looked after it 〔建筑因缺乏维护而〕破损，毁坏 The house had been left to go to rack and ruin. 房子已无人看管，日渐破败。 Examples from the Corpus go to rack and ruin• The old farmhouse had gone to rack and ruin.• He's let his father's old house go to rack and ruin.• First they let the house go to rack and ruin, then the garden; now they were sheltering hippies.• It seems that the government is prepared to let all our hospitals and schools go to rack and ruin.• Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin. → go to rack and ruin at rack1(3) |
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