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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• The arena was scarred by deep muddy ruts.
  赛场上留下了深深的车辙泥痕。
• 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。
• The truck made two ruts in the dirt road.
  卡车在泥路上轧出两道沟。
• 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。