rack-rent

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英 ['rækr'ent]
美 ['rækr'ent]
是什么意思
  • n.

    苛刻的地租;

  • v.

    索讨苛酷的地租,强索地租;

  • 变形

    过去式:rack-rented过去分词:rack-rented现在分词:rack-renting第三人称单数:rack-rents

    英英释义

    rack-rent[ 'ræk,rent ]

    • n.an extortionate rent

      同义词:rack rent

    学习怎么用

    双语例句

    用作名词(n.)
    1. In the past peasants had to pay high rent for farming land.
      过去农民们要缴纳高额的地租。

    权威例句

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    Castle Rackrent and Ennui
    The Didacticism of Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent
    "The Plain Round Tale of Faithful Thady": "Castle Rackrent"as Slave Narrative
    Inter-Nationalism: "Castle Rackrent"and Anglo-Irish Union
    Tales of Locale: The Natural History of Selborne and Castle Rackrent.
    Mantles, quirks, and Irish bulls: ironic guise and colonial subjectivity in Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent
    "Going to Law about That Jointure": Women and Property in "Castle Rackrent"
    Maria Edgeworth in Blackface: Castle Rackrent and the Irish Rebellion of 1798
    Glossing the Unvarnished Tale: Contra-Dicting Possession in "Castle Rackrent"