rack是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 行李架，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now with the rack and tortures and so on you suffer terrible pain of course; but then your tor-ture is bodily pain only (although no doubt you have plenty of that) until you die.
-- If I were to be put on the rack now, I should certainly cry out.
-- What if I were now to commit some terrible crime murder ten fel-low-creatures, for instance, or anything else that is thought most shocking and dreadful in this world what a dilem-ma my judges would be in, with a criminal who only has a fortnight to live in any case, now that the rack and other forms of torture are abolished!Why, I should die comfort-ably in their own hospital in a warm, clean room, with an attentive doctor probably much more comfortably than I should at home.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There must be something short-sighted in the eternal ar-rangements, surely!Thus it was, however; and the last drop of blood having been extracted from the flints, and the last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its pur-chase crumbled, and it now turned and turned with nothing to bite, Monseigneur began to run away from a phenome-non so low and unaccountable.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moving into the middle of the table a portfolio of papers, with a scarcely perceptible smile of self-satisfaction, he took a pencil from a rack and plunged into the perusal of a complex report relating to the present complication.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A dandy old auger, hardly rusty a bit, and I can take a box and make a test-tube rack .
-- But in dreams he was constantly upsetting a rack of test-tubes or breaking a flask.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, ir-relevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to pre-varicate, to lie no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not have trusted her with the rack itself, whilethat furious look lasted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed to penetrate into the very bones of the shrinking wayfarers, and to rack them with cold and pains.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The horse made me a sign to go in first; it was a large room with a smooth clay floor, and a rack and manger, ex-tending the whole length on one side.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have been able to invest them with none of those characteristics which make the persons of a book exist with a real life of their own; and, wondering if the fault is mine, I rack my brains to remember idiosyncrasies which might lend them vividness.
-- On a rack were the plates that she had used for dinner on the night of her quarrel with Strickland, and they had been carefully washed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Did she say, 'It is I who am wearing her to death, I who am keeping her on a rack and am the executioner, yet she tells me every night that she loves me devotedly, though she knows what I make her undergo?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She nev-er suspected that the exercise books and new songs which she found in the rack were put there for her especial benefit, and when he talked to her about music at home, she only thought how kind he was to tell things that helped her so much.
-- 'See the cunning brackets to hold candles, and the nice green sild, puckered up, with a gold rose in the middle, and the pretty rack and stool, all complete,' added Meg, opening the instrument and displaying its beauties.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men's cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck, exclaimed: "There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod. On deck!"
-- The loaded muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed, as they stood upright against the forward bulkhead.
-- The hand of Fate had snatched all their souls; and by the stirring perils of the previous day; the rack of the past night's suspense; the fixed, unfearing, blind, reckless way in which their wild craft went plunging towards its flying mark; by all these things, their hearts were bowled along.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the details of the make-up had been completed, and the company settled down as the leader of the small, hired orchestra tapped significantly upon his music rack with his baton and began the soft curtain-raising strain.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No whooping-cough did rack his frame, Nor measles drear with spots; Not these impaired the sacred name Of Stephen Dowling Bots.
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