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

• Commissary wagons with torn canvas covers rocked through the ruts. They took their oars and began to pull from the shore, then spread their sail, and drove merrily across the firth.
  盖着破帆布的军需车摇摇晃晃地在凌乱的车辙中驶着。他们先摇了一阵橹使船离岸，接着扬起帆，驾着小船欢乐地渡过河口。
• The photos also show ruts left by a roving vehicle and even backpacks pitched out of the lunar landers before the US visitors returned to Earth.
  照片上还清楚地显示了探险车在月球表面留下的车辙，以及美宇航员返航前从着陆舱中丢弃的背包。
• 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。
• Thorough planning can help smooth out the road, but there will be some ruts in the road that threaten to rip the wheels off of the car.
  通过周密的计划能够铺平道路，但是总有着一些不平可能会让你有翻车的危险。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• Some people never get out of their ruts.
  有些人永远摆脱不了陈规旧习。
• The ruts under snow; believe bitter fruits, certainly are still waving.
  雪下的辙痕；相信青涩的果实，一定还在舞动。
• 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。