rut /rʌt/ CET6+ TEM8

• 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. (思维、做事方式的) 刻板状态; (生活、事业) 一成不变状态 [表不满]

  例：

  I don't like being in a rut – I like to keep moving on.

  我不喜欢一成不变–我喜欢不断前进。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A rut is a deep, narrow mark made in the ground by the wheels of a vehicle. 车辙

  例：

  Our driver slowed up as we approached the ruts in the road.

  我们的司机在我们靠近路上的车辙时放慢了车速。

• 3. 

  V to make a rut or ruts in 形成车辙

• 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 发情期

• 5. 

  V (of male ruminants) to be in a period of sexual excitement and activity (雄性反刍动物)处于发情期