rack-rent
英 ['rækr'ent] 美 ['rækr'ent]

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

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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Another Tale to Tell: Postcolonial Theory and the Case of "Castle Rackrent"
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"