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N-COUNT
掛物架；擱物架
A rack is a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks, that is used for holding things or for hanging things on.
例句
My rucksack was too big for the luggage rack...
我的背包太大了，行李架上放不下。
You have to fight to reach the racks of clothes but the bargains are amazing.
你得費力往前擠才能夠到那一架架的衣服，但那些打折品的確超值。
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VERB
折磨;使痛苦
If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain.
例句
His already infirm body was racked by high fever...
他已經很虛弱的身體受著高燒的折磨。
The country is now racked by three violent separatist movements.
這個國家目前正被3場激烈的分離主義運動所困擾。
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PHRASE
絞盡腦汁；苦苦思索
If you rack your brains, you try very hard to think of something.
例句
She began to rack her brains to remember what had happened at the nursing home.
她開始絞盡腦汁地回憶在療養院發生的事。
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PHRASE
（身體或心理）受到折磨
If you say that someone is on the rack, you mean that they are suffering either physically or mentally.
例句
Only a year ago, he was on the rack with a heroin addiction that began when he was 13.
就在一年前，他還被13歲時開始染上的海洛因毒癮所折磨。
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PHRASE
荒廢；衰敗
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.
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PHRASE
（衣服、商品等）現成的，成品的
Off-the-rack clothes or goods are made in large numbers, rather than being made specially for a particular person.
例句
...the same off-the-rack dress she's been wearing since the night before...
她從昨晚就一直穿著的同一件成品裙裝
For our clothes, we went to a shop on Hollywood Boulevard, and we just picked it all off the rack.
至于衣服，我們到好萊塢大道上的一家商店里，都是直接挑現成的買。