rut
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT 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. (思維、做事方式的) 刻板狀態(tài); (生活、事業(yè)) 一成不變狀態(tài)[表不滿]
I don't like being in a rut – I like to keep moving on. 我不喜歡一成不變–我喜歡不斷前進(jìn)。
2. N-COUNT A rut is a deep, narrow mark made in the ground by the wheels of a vehicle. 車轍
Our driver slowed up as we approached the ruts in the road. 我們的司機(jī)在我們靠近路上的車轍時(shí)放慢了車速。
3. V to make a rut or ruts in 形成車轍
4. N a recurrent period of sexual excitement and reproductive activity in certain male ruminants, such as the deer, that corresponds to the period of oestrus in females 發(fā)情期
5. V (of male ruminants) to be in a period of sexual excitement and activity (雄性反芻動(dòng)物)処於發(fā)情期
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rut /r?t/ (ruts)
劍橋詞典
rut noun (HOLE)
[ 可數(shù)名詞：有複數(shù)形式的名詞 ]a deep , narrow mark made in soft ground especially by a wheel
（在松軟地麪上壓出的）溝，凹痕；（尤指）車轍
rut noun (SEXUALLY ACTIVE PERIOD)
[ 單數(shù)名詞 ]the period of the year during which particular male animals , especially deer and sheep , are sexually active
（尤指雄鹿、公羊等的）發(fā)情期
During the rut, stags can be seen fighting for females . 在發(fā)情期，可以看到雄鹿?fàn)?wèi)了爭(zhēng)奪雌鹿而爭(zhēng)鬭。
?in rut
(of particular male animals ) sexually excited
（雄性動(dòng)物）發(fā)情