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

• Yet, as the year progresses, we often get stuck in ruts and routines.
  然而随着时间流逝，我们常常陷在自己的日常琐事里。
• There were deep ruts worn in the road.
  路面上有磨损而形成的深凹辙迹。
• 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。
• 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。
• The ruts flattened out under the pressure of wheels.
  地面上的车辙给车轮压平了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。