wrack
wrack 英 [ræk] 美 [ræk]
n. 失事船只；破坏；[植] 漂积海草 vt. 严重伤害；遇难 vi. 彻底破坏
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- n. 失事船只；破坏；[植] 漂积海草
- vt. 严重伤害；遇难
- vi. 彻底破坏
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1. Rosie is holding up a strand of bladder wrack as long as her whole body.
罗西手里拿着一缕与她身高一样长的墨角藻。
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2. Women are generally portrayed as being picky or difficult to impress, and boyfriends and husbands alike wrack their brains, saying "How can I impress my girlfriend?
都说女人又挑剔，又难搞定，男友们以及丈夫们同样要绞尽脑汁，一脸倦容问道：我怎样才能让女友喜笑颜开啊？
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3. Periodic crises wrack the capitalist system, and they grow in size and duration .
周期性的危机破坏着资本主义制度，这种危机的规模在扩大，时间在延长。
- wrack (n.) late 14c., "wrecked ship, shipwreck," probably from Middle Dutch wrak "wreck," from Proto-Germanic *wrakaz-, from root *wreg- "to push, shove, drive" (see wreak). The root sense perhaps is "that which is cast ashore." Sense perhaps influenced by Old English wræc "misery, punishment," and wrecan "to punish, drive out" (source of modern wreak). The meaning "damage, disaster, destruction" (in wrack and ruin) is from c. 1400, from the Old English word, but conformed in spelling to this one. Sense of "seaweed, etc., cast up on shore" is recorded from 1510s, probably an alteration of wreck (n.) in this sense (mid-15c.). Wrack, wreck, rack and wretch were utterly tangled in spelling and somewhat in sense in Middle and early modern English.
- wrack (v.) "to ruin or wreck" (originally of ships), 1560s, from earlier intransitive sense "to be shipwrecked" (late 15c.), from wrack (n.). Often confused in this sense since 16c. with rack (v.) in the sense of "torture on the rack;" to wrack one's brains is thus erroneous. Related: Wracked; wracking.
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