wrack

英 [ræk]

美 [ræk]

n.  失事船只；破坏; 漂积海草
v.  严重伤害；遇难; 彻底破坏

过去分词：wracked　现在分词：wracking　过去式：wracked　复数：wracks　第三人称单数：wracks　

BNC.23271 / COCA.18410

英英释义

noun

• dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
• growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
  Synonym:sea wrack
• the destruction or collapse of something
  1. wrack and ruin
  Synonym:rack

verb

• smash or break forcefully
  1. The kid busted up the car
  Synonym:bust upwreck

双语例句

• Marketers wrack their brains and develop expensive advertising campaigns solely designed to get prospects to focus on their offers.
  开发一种系统的交叉销售方式能用相对低的费用和努力带来额外的收入。
• Then long-forgotten things like "sunken wrack and sumless treasuries," burst upon my eager sight, and I begin to feel, think, and be myself again.
  遗忘已久的事情就如带着数不尽的财宝而沉没的残骸，在我热忱地期盼中再现，我开始去感受、去思考、重新做回自己。
• 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。
• Very little impolicy can bring wrack and ruin.
  任何一点闪失就会带来毁灭。
• The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved.
  那农夫搬走之后，谷仓就废弃了。
• The sky turns black; two-headed calves are born; famine and deprivation wrack the land.
  天空变暗；双头小牛出生；饥荒和穷苦肆虐大地。
• The consequence of desperation to develop is exhaustion of resources and deterioration of environment which lead the mankind to wrack and ruin and lead the economy to back up.
  不顾一切发展经济的后果是人类赖以生存、经济赖以持续发展的资源的耗竭和环境的恶化。
• For Chinese parents who wrack their brains thinking of ways to send their kids to top universities, a recently released wealth list may make them think twice.
  对于那些绞尽脑汁想把孩子送往顶尖大学的中国父母来说，近期公布的一项财富排行表可能会让他们对此进行重新考虑。
• Times of wrack and misery
  在毁灭与悲惨的时刻
• In this way, marine search and rescue personnel could find location of the wrack as soon as possible, so that the searching time-consumption can be reduced effectively and casualties as well as property damage also be decreased.
  这样，海事搜救人员就能够尽早确定遇险船舶位置，使得搜救时间大为减少，从而有效地减少海难事故的造成的人员伤亡和财产损失，提高了海事搜救的效率。