Osam Dazaiの小説 "The Setting Sun" (Donald Keen訳)を読んでいます。
One night she was racked by a terrible cough. When I took her temperature, it was already 102 degrees.
会社で扱っている機器のカタログで "rack mounted" の表現をよく見かけるので "rack" と言うと名詞の棚のような物しか連想しませんが、引用文の動詞用法でどんな意味になるのでしょうか？
・Oxford English Dictionary: to make somebody suffer great physical or mental pain: Her face was racked with pain.
・Collins Dictionary: If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain.: His already infirm body was racked by high fever.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to cause physical or mental pain, or trouble, to someone or something: The dog was already racked by/with the pains of old age.
One night she was racked by a terrible cough. When I took her temperature, it was already 102 degrees.
会社で扱っている機器のカタログで "rack mounted" の表現をよく見かけるので "rack" と言うと名詞の棚のような物しか連想しませんが、引用文の動詞用法でどんな意味になるのでしょうか？
・Oxford English Dictionary: to make somebody suffer great physical or mental pain: Her face was racked with pain.
・Collins Dictionary: If someone is racked by something such as illness or anxiety, it causes them great suffering or pain.: His already infirm body was racked by high fever.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: to cause physical or mental pain, or trouble, to someone or something: The dog was already racked by/with the pains of old age.
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