| 单词 | rut |
| 释义 | rut (once / 2095 pages) 1nv 2n 3nv A rut is a groove in the earth, like an indent caused by wheels. It's also a boring routine that can be hard to break. If you’re stuck in a rut, you’ve been doing the same old thing for too long. If you see a groove in the ground, especially one caused by a bike or car, that's a rut. If a rut is deep enough, you could get stuck in it, which may be why the word has another meaning. If your life has become boring, stale, and monotonous, you're in a rut. Someone who works the same job for decades may feel like they're in a rut and need to make a change. WORD FAMILYrut: ruts, rutted, rutting, ruttish, rutty+/rutty: ruttier, ruttiest USAGE EXAMPLESOnce through the rutted parking lot and inside the clubhouse, there’s no pro shop, few furnishings, no local club professional and no restaurant. Washington Times(Dec 16, 2016) Pazienza outpointed Duran over 12 gruelling rounds - watching the fight back is like watching two rutting rams - before beating him again the following year. BBC(Nov 30, 2016) Journalists may thrive on news — by definition, the unexpected or novel — but they’re terrible at getting out of their own comfortable ruts. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) 1 1n a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) Hyper channel, groove a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) 2v hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove 2Syn|Hyper furrow, groove cut into, delve, dig, turn over turn up, loosen, or remove earth n a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape 3they fell into a conversational rut Syn|Hyper groove modus operandi, routine an unvarying or habitual method or procedure 1n applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity Syn|Ant|Hyper estrus, heat, oestrus anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state the condition or state of the body or bodily functions 2v be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) |
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