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
中文词源
wrack 漂来物，残败，漂到海岸上的海草
可能来自PIE*wreg,推，驱动，扭曲，词源同wreak,wreck,引申义残骸，破败。后也用来指漂到海岸上的海草。
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 1. Of the original scheme hardly a wrack remains.
- 原来的计划几乎一点残迹也未留下.
- 2. 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.
- 3. The wrack had begun to stink as it rotted in the sun.
- 海草残骸在阳光下腐烂,开始变臭了.
- 4. The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved.
- 那农夫搬走之后,谷仓就废弃了.
- 5. The wrack of the city was still hot from the fire.
- 这城市的残骸,仍因火灾还是热的.
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