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Rack的用法;racked up his first adult conviction 首次被定罪;go to rack and ruin 可以翻译为烂尾楼吗?

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学习一个地道英语词汇rack, 看有哪些用法。先看一个原文例句:
Scripps racked up his first adult conviction in 1978, when he was found guilty of indecent assault and given a fine of £40.
斯克里普斯在 1978 年首次被定罪,当时他被判犯有猥亵罪并被处以 40 英镑的罚款。

rack sth up,主要是北美英语,表示“累积;聚集(某物);累计(得分)”,这里有幽默讽刺意味, 表示这个人“赢得/取得了第一次犯罪”,肯定以后是多次犯罪了。
下面分别是rack的动词和名词用法。


rack²
verb
1. [T usually passive] to make someone suffer great mental or physical pain
• 使受〔精神或肉体的〕巨大痛苦:
»Great sobs racked her body .
  她哭得全身抽搐。
»be racked by / with sth
»Her face was racked with pain.
  她脸都痛得变形了。
»Liza was racked by guilt.
  莉莎深受负罪感的折磨。
2. rack your brains,  to try very hard to remember or think of something
• 绞尽脑汁; 冥思苦想:
»I racked my brains, trying to remember his name.
  我绞尽脑汁想记起他的名字。【PHR V】
rack sthup
[informal] to get a number or amount of something, especially a number of points in a competition
• 取得〔数目或数量〕; 〔尤指比赛〕得〔分〕:
»He racked up 41 points.
  他得到了 41 分。

rack¹

/ ræk ; ræk /
noun [C]
1. a frame or shelf that has bars or hooks on which you can put things
• 〔带有横档或钩子的〕架子,搁物架:
»a wine rack
  酒架
»a magazine rack
  杂志架
--› see LUGGAGE RACK , ROOF-RACK
2. the rack,  a piece of equipment that was used in the past to make people suffer severe pain by stretching their bodies
• 拉肢刑架〔旧时的一种酷刑刑具〕:
»Thousands of people were tortured on the rack.
  数千人受过拉肢刑架的酷刑。
3. on the rack, [BrE informal] in a very difficult situation
• 处于困境(窘境):
»The company is now well and truly on the rack.
  公司现在真的是危机重重。
4. go to rack and ruin,  if a building goes to rack and ruin, it gradually gets into a very bad condition because no one has looked after it
• 〔建筑因缺乏照料而〕破损,毁坏:
»The house had been left to go to rack and ruin.
  房子已无人看管,日渐破败。
5. [AmE] a three-sided frame used for arranging the balls at the start of a game of SNOOKER or POOL
• 〔用于彩色桌球或落袋台球开局时排列球的〕三角框
6. a rack of lamb / pork,  a fairly large piece of meat from the side of an animal, that contains several RIB bones
• 羊/猪肋排骨
7. off the rack, [AmE] if you can buy something off the rack, you can buy it in a shop rather than having it specially made
• 成品的; 现成的;
【SYN】 off-the-peg [BrE] :
»A lot of designer clothes are now available off the rack.
  现在很多名师设计的衣服都有成品卖了。

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