wracked

英 [ræk]

美

n. 失事船只；破坏；[植] 漂积海草
vt. 严重伤害；遇难
vi. 彻底破坏
wrack的过去分词, 过去式

双语例句

• Europe was wracked by religious wars for several hundred years.
  欧洲就饱受宗教战争的摧残。
• African nations face a choice, regardless of how indebted, poorly governed, or wracked by conflict they may be.
  无论非洲国家可能如何负债累累、管理欠佳或冲突四起，现在它们有了选择余地。
• If smokers are rational, they don't. But if smokers are wracked by temptation and are trying unsuccessfully to quit, then higher prices might make them happier by encouraging them to smoke less, or even to stop entirely.
  如果吸烟者是理性的，那么答案就是否定的；但如果吸烟者被诱惑煎熬，并且试图戒烟不成功，那么，较高的香烟价格会让他们更开心，因为这会鼓励他们少抽、甚至完全不抽烟。
• People can become paralysed by too much variety and wracked with uncertainty and regret about whether they have made the right decision.
  人们会因为过多的种类而行为瘫痪，受这些不确定性因素的摧残，并为他们是否做出正确的决定而懊悔。
• The eastern state of Orissa has been wracked with clashes between Hindus and Christians since August.
  位于东部的奥里萨邦8月份以来弥漫著印度教徒和基督教徒之间冲突的硝烟。
• The east-African country has been wracked by warfare and has no functioning government-much less a navy to patrol its shores.
  这个非洲东部的国家受到战火蹂躏，政府已经停止运作，更别说有海军巡逻它的海岸。
• A simmering civil war has wracked parts of the country since independence in1948 and observers say the state's determination to crush ethnic rebels has increased as elections loomed.
  一触即发的内战1948年独立以来蹂躏全国各地。观察员说，军政府执政团决心粉碎反政府民族武装已经使选举前景黯淡。
• It's a country which has been wracked by civil war& with the nation split among clan-based militias since the fall of the regime of Major General Mohamed Siad Barre in1991.
  实际上，它饱受内战蹂躏–自1991年MohamedSiadBarre少将的政权倒台之后，一直为分裂的部落式民兵国家。
• If any of these illnesses wracked Lincoln's body during his presidency, how do we explain his inexhaustible physical constitution?
  如果任职总统期间，林肯真患有这类疾病，那如何解释他力量无穷无尽的体质？
• I wracked my brain, trying to remember his telephone number.
  我绞尽脑汁，想记住他的电话号码。