6.old car 旧汽车 informalTTCCONDITION/STATE OF something an old car that is in a very bad condition 破烂不堪的汽车
Examples from the Corpus
wreck• She felt an absolutewreck, yet at the same time she felt acutely self-aware.• Mom looked like a completewreck after the wedding.• The car was a complete wreck, but the driverescaped with minorinjuries.• Without my exercise, I was a cryingwreck.• It's embarrassing to be seen driving that old wreck.• I held her, trying to appear calm and composed on the outside, a shakingwreck on the inside.• Boss Mangan, the symbol of industrial and political might, is a love-stricken wreck easily manipulated by the go-getting Ellie Dunn.• Ten people were injured in the wreck.• Divers went down to search the wreck.• Investigators are searching the wreck for clues as to why the plane crashed.• Nobody could have survived the wreck.• The wrecks massing on shore, the wrecks made of ships in open water.• She also looked like a totalwreck!• If there were no blizzard to shut down Washington, there would still be the budget train wreck.
nervous/emotional wreck• At this rate she would go back to London a nervous wreck and have to resign.• By the time my friends left, l was a nervous wreck.• She was a nervous wreck, and all that was wrong with the child was measles.• Of course, we hardly needed to say, as we made our way upstairs, that we were both nervous wrecks.• It had to be learnt, if we were not to turn into nervous wrecks.• Just the thing for a twitching little nervous wreck who keeps passing out on her dinnerdates.• Apparently some of them nervous wrecks.
car/train/plane wreck• If there were no blizzard to shut down Washington, there would still be the budget train wreck.• And if the budget train wreck ended, there would still be -- political correctness.• The show-biz story of the decade has spawned the cinematictrain wreck of 1996.• They leapt down the car wrecks and legged it across the ground towards the girl.• Something was burning out there, not in the car wreck ... but beside it.• Rain was hissing on the roof of the car wreck, fogging the scene still further.• It strode through the black rain to the car wreck in the forecourt, sensing the presence of more food.
Originwreck2
(1200-1300)Anglo-Frenchwrek, from a Scandinavian language
1of a ship船隻VERB + WRECK | PREPOSITIONVERB + WRECK➤discover, find, locate發現失事船隻殘骸;找到失事船隻殘骸;查找失事船隻殘骸的位置◇Divers were sent down to try and locate the wreck.派潛水員下海去探查失事船隻殘骸的位置。➤explore探索失事船隻殘骸▸➤raise, salvage撈起沉船;打撈失事船隻殘骸◇They're going to try and raise the wreck from the sea bed.他們將設法從海底撈起失事船隻殘骸。➤salvage sth from從失事船上搶救某物PREPOSITION➤in a/the wreck在失事船隻裏◇They are worried about the oil still in the wreck.他們擔憂仍然留在失事船隻裏的石油。➤on a/the wreck在失事船隻殘骸上◇Heavy seas prevented salvage teams from landing on the wreck.巨浪使海上救援隊無法登上失事船隻殘骸。➤wreck of⋯的殘骸◇the wreck of the Titanic“泰坦尼克”號的殘骸wreck
noun²
2of a car/plane汽車;飛機ADJECTIVE | VERB + WRECKADJECTIVE➤total整個殘骸▸➤crumpled扭曲的殘骸▸➤blazing, burning着火的/燃燒的殘骸◇Explosions ripped through the blazing wreck.着火的殘骸接連發生爆炸。VERB + WRECK➤be trapped in被困在失事殘骸中◇Two passengers are still trapped in the wreck.有兩名乘客仍然被困在出事車輛中。➤escape, escape from逃離殘骸現場wreck
noun³
3 (especially NAmE) accident事故ADJECTIVE | VERB + WRECK | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤car, train車禍;火車撞車VERB + WRECK➤cause導致失事➤survive在事故中活了下來PHRASES➤like watching a car wreck, like watching a train wreck就像車禍/火車撞車一樣吸引眼球◇His attempts at damage control are like watching a car wreck.他進行損害控制的種種做法非常引人關注。➤a train wreck waiting to happen (= is likely to be a disaster)可能出現災難◇The campaign is a train wreck waiting to happen.這場運動可能演變成災難。wreck
noun⁴
4of a person人ADJECTIVE | VERB + WRECKADJECTIVE➤absolute, complete, total十足的廢人;大傷元氣的人;完全的廢人▸➤emotional, nervous情緒極度受傷的人;神經極度受損的人◇The interview reduced him to a nervous wreck.面試使他精神趨於崩潰。➤gibbering, quivering害怕得語無倫次的人;戰戰兢兢的人◇I always turn into a gibbering wreck at interviews.每當面試時,我總是緊張得語無倫次。➤physical身體垮了的人VERB + WRECK➤feel, look (both especially BrE) 感覺沒精打采;看上去沒精打采◇I hadn't slept for two days, and I felt a complete physical wreck.我已經兩天沒睡覺了,感覺身體都累垮了。➤reduce sb to (especially BrE) 使某人遭受極大損害wreck
verb
ADVERB | VERB + WRECKADVERB➤completely, totally完全毀掉;整個毀掉◇A bomb completely wrecked the building.一顆炸彈把這座建築完全炸毀了。➤almost, nearly幾乎毀掉▸➤effectively (especially BrE) 實際上毀掉VERB + WRECK➤try to, want to試圖/想要毀掉▸➤threaten to威脅要破壞◇a crisis that threatens to wreck the peace talks威脅到和平會談的危機
wreck verb ⇨crash (wreck a car)⇨ruin (wreck sb's life)⇨vandalize (wreck fast cars)wreck noun ⇨accident (a train wreck)⇨remains1 (the wreck of the Titanic)