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

• The arena was scarred by deep muddy ruts.
  赛场上留下了深深的车辙泥痕。
• 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。
• 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。
• My bike bumped over the ruts.
  我的自行车在凹凸不平的车辙道上颠颠簸簸。
• He looked for ruts and cracks but found only a pile of warm dung deposited by one of the horses.
  他想寻找车辙和裂缝但所见只有一堆由某匹马留下的冒着热气的的粪便。
• Eclipses move us out of ruts, get us more excited or alert-in short they do whatever they have to do in order to keep us moving forward.
  蚀会使我们偏离轨道，让我们更亢奋或更警惕&简而言之，它们会做任何事以使我们继续前进。
• 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。
• There were deep ruts worn in the road.
  路面上有磨损而形成的深凹辙迹。
• 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。
• She looked down the glaring red road, cut in deep ruts where cannon wheels and ambulances had gone over it.
  她顺着红光闪烁的大路向前望去，只见路上尽是深陷的车辙，那是炮车和救护车碾过后留下来的。