rut
n. 車轍; 發情期; 老一套,慣例
If you say that someone is in 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 is in a rut.
I don't like being in a rut — I like to keep moving on...
我不喜歡一成不變的生活——我喜歡不斷進取。
Many over 30s feel stuck in a financial rut.
很多超過30歲的人都覺得自己的經濟狀況很難有所改變。
A rut is a deep, narrow mark made in the ground by the wheels of a vehicle.
Our driver slowed up as we approached the ruts in the road.
當駛近路上的車轍時,我們的司機放慢了速度。
...the deep ruts left by the trucks' heavy wheels.
卡車沉重的輪子留下的很深的車轍
The rut is 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.
...two elks sparring during the autumn rut.
兩頭麋鹿在秋季的發情期互相打鬥
...a stag in rut.
發情期的牡鹿
1. a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
2. a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;
3. applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
1. be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
2. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;
They fell into a conversational rut.
他們陷入了老套的對話中.
A good rut like 200 years of decracy or a bad rut like UNICEF?
是200年民主的好慣例還是聯合國兒童基金的懷慣例?
We always settle into a rut but cannot show our own efforts.
我們總是陷入一種幾乎一樣的路子而簡直沒有展示出自己的努力.
The detective followed the rut made by the jeep.
偵探追尋著吉普留下的車轍痕跡.
Billy: They say that a rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.
比利: 他們說一成不變的生活是無底的墳墓.