英语词汇rack and ruin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	rack and ruin
词源	rack and ruin. A person gone to rack and ruin, “to destruc- tion, utter destitution,” may feel as though he’s being stretched on the infamous rack, but the word rack in this centuries-old expression is only a misspelling of the word wrack. Even before Elizabethan times wrack was a variant form of wreck, and since the w in it is almost silent, writers took to spelling it rack. And so we have the phrase rack and ruin, which should really be wreck and ruin.
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