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

• Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the wheels half emerged from the ruts.
  忽然，大家看见那一大堆东西动摇起来了，车子慢慢上升了，轮子已从泥坑里起来了一半。
• 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。
• Some people never get out of their ruts.
  有些人永远摆脱不了陈规旧习。
• The farm carts have worn ruts in this field.
  火车在这块地里轧出了辙痕。
• 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。
• 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。
• The arena was scarred by deep muddy ruts.
  赛场上留下了深深的车辙泥痕。
• The ruts flattened out under the pressure of wheels.
  地面上的车辙给车轮压平了。
• 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。
• How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
  想人世的公路如何给践踏得尘埃蔽天，传统和习俗形成了何等深的车辙！