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

• The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved.
  那农夫搬走之后，谷仓就废弃了。
• Bring to wrack and ruin; bungle
  办事砸了锅
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Using underwater blasting to demolish the wrack in the waterway is a rapid, effective and economical means.
  水下爆破沉船清理航道是一种快速、有效、经济的手段。
• Times of wrack and misery
  在毁灭与悲惨的时刻
• 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。
• 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。
• The Guardian article says this is how FIFA operates: Helicopter into a country, enjoy tax-exempt status, wrack up revenue from corporate sponsors and broadcasters, then take off to the next destination.
  《卫报》报道中称其运营方式为坐着直升机到一个国家，享受免税身份，从赞助商和广播公司那里大捞一笔，然后转战下一个地方。