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

• A half century ago when the Asia Society was founded, Asia was frozen in a cold war, wracked by poverty, and seemingly destined for desolation.
  半个世纪前，当亚洲协会成立时，亚洲深陷冷战的僵局，贫困肆虐，前景苍凉。
• 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？
• His body was wracked with liver cancer, and he suffered the effects of a diabetic ulcer.
  肝癌拖垮了他的身体，他还饱受糖尿病溃疡的折磨。
• Actually, I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you today.
  实际上，我为今天应该和大家谈些什么绞尽了脑汁。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Europe was wracked by religious wars for several hundred years.
  欧洲就饱受宗教战争的摧残。
• 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。
• S.assistance to Thailand and the Philippines, focused on their southern regions, which have been wracked by Muslim insurgencies.
  他预计美国将向泰国和菲律宾更多的援助，是两国的南方，那里受到了穆斯林反叛活动的重创。