wrack and ruin
collocation彻底毁灭；破败不堪
The old mansion was left to wrack and ruin after the fire.
大火过后，那座旧宅邸沦为一片废墟。
海藻；海草
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海藻；海草
Marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed.
The children collected wrack along the shoreline after the storm.
暴风雨过后，孩子们沿着海岸线收集被冲上岸的海藻。
残骸
The remains of something; a wreck.
被冲上岸的海洋植物,尤其是海藻
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
漂浮物
Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
高空飞行的云；云层
A high, flying cloud; a rack.
Farmers on the island use wrack as a natural fertilizer for their fields.
岛上的农民用海草作为田地的天然肥料。
At low tide, a thick layer of wrack covered the rocks.
退潮时，一层厚厚的海藻覆盖了岩石。
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彻底毁灭；破败不堪
The old mansion was left to wrack and ruin after the fire.
大火过后，那座旧宅邸沦为一片废墟。
海草；冲上岸的海藻
The storm left piles of sea wrack on the beach.
风暴过后，海滩上留下了一堆堆海草。
墨角藻（一种常见褐藻）
Bladder wrack grows on rocks in the intertidal zone.
墨角藻生长在潮间带的岩石上。
海藻堆积线（高潮时留在沙滩上的海草和碎屑线）
The wrack line shows the highest point reached by the tide.
海藻堆积线标示出潮水到达的最高点。
毁灭；破败
The old house went to wrack and ruin after years of neglect.
这座老房子因多年无人照管而破败不堪。
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想象海滩上冲上来一个散架的架子（rack），残骸和海藻缠在一起——wrack就是残骸、冲上岸的海藻。
语域：mixed 常见场景：coastal shore or beach、river or pond surface、literary or poetic writing 该词作名词时，义项和语域差别较大：指“海藻/被冲上岸的植物”或“水面漂浮物”时，多用于沿海、河岸等具体场景，语气比较中性；指“残骸”时常见于文学或正式描写；指“高空云”时则更偏诗歌用语。因此整体语域需视义项而定，不能一概而论。
rack、crack、track、back、lack 都与 wrack (/ræk/) 押韵：重读元音和后面辅音都是 /æk/。注意 wrack 和 rack 同音，但拼写和意思不同。要小心 wreck：它看起来像 wrack（都以 wr 开头、以 ck 结尾），但发音是 /rɛk/，不是 /ræk/。
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