rack

1. N-COUNT A rack is a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on. 搁物架; 挂物架

A luggage rack is a sensible option. 行李架是个明智的选择。

2. V-T If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain. 使痛苦[usu passive]

His already infirm body was racked by high fever. 他已经很孱弱的身体受到高烧的折磨。

3. N an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim 拉肢刑架

4. V to torture on the rack 施拉肢酷刑

5. N destruction; wreck (obsolete except in the phrase go to rack and ruin) 毁灭

6. N the neck or rib section of mutton, pork, or veal (羊、猪或小牛的)颈脊

7. N another word for single-foot, a gait of the horse (马)小步跑

8. N a group of broken clouds moving in the wind 碎积云

9. V (of clouds) to be blown along by the wind (云)随风飘过

10. V to clear (wine, beer, etc) as by siphoning it off from the dregs 吸干(酒等)

11. PHRASE If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something. 绞尽脑汁

She began to rack her brains to remember what had happened at the nursing home. 她开始绞尽脑汁地回忆在疗养院发生的事。