Racking

(adj.) causing great physical or mental suffering; 'a wrenching pain' .

塞西莉整理

• It is so tormenting, so racking, and it burns away our strength with its flame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And presently, Margaret, racking her brain to talk to Fanny, heard her mother and Mrs. Thornton plunge into the interminable subject of servants. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Racking back coals. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Every other child must be racking his heart. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The divorced mates, Spirit and Substance, were hard to re-unite: they greeted each other, not in an embrace, but a racking sort of struggle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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