Word · Frequency #23554
racking
折磨人的；令人痛苦的
causing great physical or mental suffering
- 1.
causing great physical or mental suffering
引起极大身心痛苦的
引起极大身心痛苦的
In use
The patient lay in bed, suffering from a racking headache.
She felt a racking sense of guilt after lying to her friend.
The racking cough kept him up all night.
a racking + [singular countable noun]
racking 作定语，修饰单数可数名词时，需加不定冠词 a，如 a racking cough、a racking headache。
A racking cough kept him awake all night.
一阵折磨人的咳嗽让他整夜未眠。
racking + [uncountable noun]
修饰不可数名词时不用冠词，常见搭配有 racking pain、racking guilt、racking grief。
Racking guilt made her unable to speak.
折磨人的内疚让她说不出话来。
Common mistakes
I am racking with guilt.I am racked with guilt.
rack 是及物动词，意为“使痛苦”，现在分词 racking 描述造成痛苦的事物，过去分词 racked 描述承受痛苦的人；表示“备受……折磨”要用 be racked with，而不是 be racking with。
The news gave me a racking.The news gave me a racking feeling.
racking 是形容词，不能单独当名词表示“折磨”；用作定语时必须后接名词，如 a racking feeling/pain，意为“令人痛苦的感觉/疼痛”。
Connections
Collocations
- racking pain
- 折磨人的疼痛
- The old injury caused him racking pain in his back.旧伤让他的背部疼痛难忍。
- racking cough
- 剧烈的咳嗽
- She could not sleep because of a racking cough.剧烈的咳嗽让她无法入睡。
- racking sobs
- 撕心裂肺的抽泣
- He was overcome by racking sobs at the funeral.他在葬礼上哭得撕心裂肺。
- racking guilt
- 折磨人的内疚
- She felt racking guilt after forgetting her promise.忘记承诺后，她感到内疚不已。
- racking headache
- 剧烈的头痛
- A racking headache kept him from focusing on work.剧烈的头痛让他无法集中精力工作。
- racking agony
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 rack 想成拷问用的刑架：人被拉在上面，身心备受折磨，所以 racking 意为“令人痛苦的”。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：描述身体疼痛或剧烈咳嗽、形容精神压力或焦虑 作形容词时通常用于强调痛苦或压力的程度，多出现在 racking pain、racking cough、nerve-racking 等搭配中；日常书面和口语都比较常见，语气较强，但不算特别正式。
Pronunciation & Spelling
All six words rhyme with racking: they share the stressed vowel /æ/ and the ending /kɪŋ/. Beware lookalikes such as rocking /ˈrɑkɪŋ/ and taking /ˈteɪkɪŋ/, which do not rhyme.
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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