Rut

(noun.) a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; 'they fell into a conversational rut'.

(noun.) a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels).

(verb.) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals.

整理:拉尔夫

• Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Born in a rut, and you can't root 'em out of it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The wheels only pulled sideways against the ruts. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But the phrase is also used to mean ruts, routine ways, with loss of freshness, open-mindedness, and originality. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned from the high road into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either side. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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