| 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，誰要是強拉他在這刑架一般冷酷無情的人間再多待一些時間，一定會遭他痛恨。
△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，簡直是上了拷問臺。
2. engine of torture,instrument of torture拷問架，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；”由于長期監(jiān)禁，我這四肢疼得就像一個剛從拷問架拖下來的人一樣。
3. engine of torture,i.e. extreme pain拷問架，（指）極大痛苦。
△Oth.3.3.336 (335):“thou hast set me on therack.”你拉我上了拷問架。(又譯：你把我害得好苦。)
rackn. 2 cloud-mass,drifting clouds云團，浮云。
△Ham.2.2.514 (484):“the rack stand still.”烏云靜止不動。
rackvt.
1. torture by stretching the limbs對…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，我知道不管他們對他施加什么酷刑也不會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!” 自從我不見了你之后，我過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；”你用強征勒索把平民百姓弄得精窮。
4. extend to its extreme,exaggerate,distort極力擴大，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，我們就會竭力夸大它的價值。 rack[r?k]n.擱板，行李架，發(fā)射架，炸彈架，臺v.使飛機突然轉(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)超級市場的批發(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) |