ruts

英 [rʌts]

美 [rʌts]

n.  车辙; 刻板乏味的生活; (雄鹿等雄性动物的)发情期
rut的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （人、生活或工作）刻板乏味，一成不变，老一套
  If you say that someone isin a rut, you disapprove of the fact that they have become fixed in their way of thinking and doing things, and find it difficult to change. You can also say that someone's life or career isin a rut.
  1. I don't like being in a rut — I like to keep moving on...
     我不喜欢一成不变的生活——我喜欢不断进取。
  2. Many over 30s feel stuck in a financial rut.
     很多超过30岁的人都觉得自己的经济状况很难有所改变。
• N-COUNT 车辙
  Arutis a deep, narrow mark made in the ground by the wheels of a vehicle.
  1. Our driver slowed up as we approached the ruts in the road.
     当驶近路上的车辙时，我们的司机放慢了速度。
  2. ...the deep ruts left by the trucks' heavy wheels.
     卡车沉重的轮子留下的很深的车辙
• N-SING (动物的)发情期
  The rutis the period of the year when some animals such as deer are sexually active, and the males fight each other to mate with the females.
  1. ...two elks sparring during the autumn rut.
     两头麋鹿在秋季的发情期互相打斗
  2. ...a stag in rut.
     发情期的牡鹿
• See also:ruttedrutting

双语例句

• He lurched the car in reverse along the ruts to the access road.
  他顺着车辙摇摇晃晃地将车倒到了支路上。
• Eventually help came and we were towed out of the huge ruts, my tires as smooth as a baby's behind.
  帮手终于来了，我们被拖出巨大的槽沟，轮胎光滑得就像婴儿的屁股蛋。
• Down the dirt road my four-wheel drive bounced over ruts and rocks as I followed the creek that had given us "fantastic,"" beautiful,"" amazing" trout.
  沿着那条给了我们“奇异的”、“漂亮的”、“美妙的”鳟鱼的小溪，我的车子颠簸在尘土飞扬、凹凸不平的路上。
• Passengers were still complaining about the ruts in the road but that's about all that was the same.
  乘客们仍然在一直抱怨着路上的车辙，但是情况还是和以前一样。
• Some people never get out of their ruts.
  有些人永远摆脱不了陈规旧习。
• He will draw his sword and threaten the East, and he will fill with blood the ruts made by his wheels.
  他会用他的剑来威胁东方，他会利用车轮，让车辙涂上了血。
• Scientists, like all other human beings, may get into ruts and apply their techniques regardless of varying circumstances.
  科学家与其他人一样，可能陷入一定模式，因而不分场合地应用他们的技术。
• They had not gone far, but had gone by some very uncomfortable places, such as brick-fields and tile-yards, when the old woman turned down a dirty lane, where the mud lay in deep black ruts in the middle of the road.
  她们没有走得很远，只是走过了像砖厂、瓦厂这样一些很索然无趣、毫无快感的地方，这时候老太婆转到一条肮脏的小巷，巷子里路中间深深的黑色车辙中注满了泥浆。
• The farm carts have worn ruts in this field.
  火车在这块地里轧出了辙痕。
• Habitual thought patterns are like ruts in a dirt road.
  习惯性思考规律就像一条泥巴路上的深车轮印。