英语单词 | wrack |
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英美音标 | 英 美 |
中文释义 | n.破坏;残骸;海草 v.破坏;带来极大的痛苦 |
英语例句 | (1) The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved. (2) Of the original scheme hardly a wrack remains. (3) The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved. (4) The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather. |
中文例句 | (1) 那农夫搬走之后,谷仓就废弃了。 (2) 原来的计划几乎一点残迹也未留下。 (3) 那农夫搬走之后,谷仓就废弃了。 (4) 汽车暴露于外任凭风吹雨打日晒,很快就会报废的。 |
vocabulary简明 | Wrack is when something falls into disrepair. When an old house deteriorates, you can describe its wrack, or the process of its crumbling collapse. |
vocabulary扩展 | You're most likely to come across the noun wrack in the phrase "go to wrack and ruin." This is a descriptive way to talk about the collapse or gradual breakdown of something, either literal — "I hate to see that building go to wrack and ruin," or figurative — "Their marriage went to wrack and ruin after a year." In the fourteenth century, a wrack was a shipwreck, from the Middle Dutch wrak, or "wreck." |
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