rule /ruːl/ CET4 TEM4 ( ruling, ruled, rules )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT Rules are instructions that tell you what you are allowed to do and what you are not allowed to do. 规则

  例：

  ...a thirty-two-page pamphlet explaining the rules of basketball.

  …一本说明篮球规则的32页的小册子。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A rule is a statement telling people what they should do in order to achieve success or a benefit of some kind. 原则; 准则

  例：

  An important rule is to drink plenty of water during any flight.

  一条重要的原则是在任何一次飞行中都要喝大量的水。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT The rules of something such as a language or a science are statements that describe the way that things usually happen in a particular situation. 规律; 法则

  例：

  ...according to the rules of quantum theory.

  …根据量子论的法则。

• 4. 

  N-SING If something is the rule, it is the normal state of affairs. 常规; 惯例

  例：

  However, for many Americans today, weekend work has unfortunately become the rule rather than the exception.

  然而，如今对许多美国人而言，周末工作已不幸成为惯例而不是特例。

• 5. 

  V-T/V-I The person or group that rules a country controls its affairs. 统治

  例：

  For four centuries, he says, foreigners have ruled Angola.

  他说4个世纪以来外国人一直统治着安哥拉。

  例：

  He ruled for eight months.

  他在位了8个月。

• 6. 

  N-UNCOUNT Rule is also a noun. 统治

  例：

  ...demands for an end to one-party rule.

  …结束一党统治的要求。

• 7. 

  V-T If something rules your life, it influences or restricts your actions in a way that is not good for you. 严重影响; 制约

  例：

  Scientists have always been aware of how fear can rule our lives and make us ill.

  科学家们从来都知道恐惧是如何严重影响我们的生活并使我们患病的。

• 8. 

  V-T/V-I When someone in authority rules that something is true or should happen, they state that they have officially decided that it is true or should happen. 裁定 [正式]

  例：

  The court ruled that laws passed by the assembly remained valid.

  该法庭裁定由议会通过的法律仍然有效。

  例：

  The Israeli court has not yet ruled on the case.

  以色列法院尚未对此案做出裁决。

• 9. 

  V-T If you rule a straight line, you draw it using something that has a straight edge. 画

  例：

  ...a ruled grid of horizontal and vertical lines.

  …一个画好的由水平线及垂直线构成的网格。

• 10. 

  → see also golden rule, ground rule, ruling

• 11. 

  PHRASE If you say that something happens as a rule, you mean that it usually happens. 通常

  例：

  As a rule, however, such attacks have been aimed at causing damage rather than taking life.

  然而，通常此类攻击意在造成破坏而非要人性命。

• 12. 

  PHRASE If someone in authority bends the rules or stretches the rules, they do something even though it is against the rules. 变通规则; 通融

  例：

  There happens to be a particular urgency in this case, and it would help if you could bend the rules.

  这次碰巧有紧急情况，如果你能通融一下将会很有帮助。

• 13. 

  PHRASE A rule of thumb is a rule or principle that you follow which is not based on exact calculations, but rather on experience. 经验法则

  例：

  A good rule of thumb is that a broker must generate sales of ten times his salary if his employer is to make a profit.

  一个很好的经验法则是，雇主要获取利润的话，其中间人必须创造10倍于自己薪水的销售额。