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

• Ordinarily the surface is hard with rock-strewn sections commonplace, while ruts will often form after the first pass.
  通常布满碎石的赛道会显得比较硬，而跑过一趟之后就会出现一些坑槽。
• 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。
• The truck made two ruts in the dirt road.
  卡车在泥路上轧出两道沟。
• The farm carts have worn ruts in this field.
  火车在这块地里轧出了辙痕。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In the midst of the file of Cossacks two waggons, drawn by French horses, and Cossack saddle-horses hitched on in front, rumbled over stumps and branches, and splashed through the ruts full of water.
  在拉得很长的哥萨克队伍中间，有两辆套着法国马和带马鞍的哥萨克马的大车在树桩和枯枝上颠簸着，车辙积满了水，大车发出扑哧扑哧的声响。
• 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。
• They point to places like Argentina and Russia, which defaulted and briefly struggled before emerging from their economic ruts unexpectedly well.
  他们指出，阿根廷、俄罗斯等国在经历了违约后的短暂沉浮后，很快就出乎意料地重回正轨。