To fall into severe or total decay, degradation, or ruination, as from disuse or lack of upkeep. ("Rack" here is a variant spelling of "wrack," a now-archaic word meaning wreckage or destruction.) The neighbor’s property has really gone to rack and ruin lately. I’m thinking about filing a complaint with the neighborhood association!
It greatly pains me that my grandfather’s estate has been left to go to rack and ruin. If only we’d been able to afford for someone to look after it for all these years.
机译:我祖父的遗产被遗弃在废墟中,这让我非常痛苦。如果这些年来我们能有人照顾它就好了。
to get into a bad condition
机译:进入糟糕的状态
They let the house go to rack and ruin.
机译:他们让房子破败不堪。
词组
go to rack and ruin
荒废,坍塌
属类:简明汉英词典--
go to rack and ruin
被毁灭掉
属类:简明汉英词典--
go to rack and ruin
被破坏
属类:工程技术-海运工程-
The house went to rack and ruin.
房子毁坏了。
属类:综合句库-
Go to rack and ruin
走向毁灭,陷于毁灭
属类:综合句库-
Your homeland has gone to rack and ruin.
你老家的田园已经荒芜。
属类:综合句库-
The old empty house soon went to rack and ruin.
这所旧的空房子很快就毁坏了.
属类:综合句库-典型例句
This country is going to rack and ruin;we need a change of government.
这个国家正在分崩离析,我们需要更换政府.
属类:综合句库-典型例句
The house went to rack and ruin.
房子荒废了。
属类:综合句库-
The city wall went to rack and ruin from neglect
城墙因失修而成了颓垣断壁。
属类:综合句库-
The house was unoccupied for several years and went to rack and ruin.