新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

ruleIELTS重点词汇

英 [ruːl]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

NOUN. 名词

rules
1. [C 可数名词] 规则
Rules are instructions that tell you what you are allowed to do and what you are not allowed to do.
双语例句
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. [C 可数名词] 原则 , 准则
A rule is a statement telling people what they should do in order to achieve success or a benefit of some kind.
双语例句
例：
An important rule is to drink plenty of water during any flight.
一条重要的原则是每次坐飞机都要喝大量的水。
3. [C 可数名词] 规律 , 法则
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.
双语例句
例：
according to the rules of quantum theory.
根据量子论的法则。
例：
Children often apply grammatical rules correctly in order to express what they want.
孩子们经常能正确运用语法来表达自己的想法。
4. [SING 单数型名词] 常规 , 惯例
If something is the rule, it is the normal state of affairs.
双语例句
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，周末工作已不幸地成为惯例而不是特例。
5. [U 不可数名词] 统治
When a person or group controls the affairs of a country, you call this their rule. A person's or a group's rule is also the length of time during which they rule a country.
双语例句
例：
demands for an end to one-party rule.
结束一党统治的要求。

PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词

rule out
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 不考虑 , 排除
If you rule out a course of action, an idea, or a solution, you decide that it is impossible or unsuitable.
双语例句
例：
The Treasury Department has ruled out using a weak dollar as the main solution for the country's trade problems.
财政部已经不考虑将疲软的美元作为解决该国贸易问题的主要办法。
2. [PHRASAL 短语] 阻止…发生 , 使…不可能
If something rules out a situation, it prevents it from happening or from being possible.
双语例句
例：
A serious car accident in 1986 ruled out a permanent future for him in farming.
1986年的一起严重车祸使他永远无法务农了。

PHRASE. 习语

as a rule
1. 通常
If you say that something happens as a rule, you mean that it usually happens.
近义词
generally , usually
双语例句
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取人性命。
bend the rules , stretch the rules
1. 变通规则 , 通融
If someone in authority bends the rules or stretches the rules, they do something even though it is against the rules.
双语例句
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。
rule of thumb
1. 经验法则
A rule of thumb is a rule or principle that you follow which is not based on exact calculations, but rather on experience.
双语例句
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。

VERB. 动词

rules , ruling , ruled
1. [I 不及物动词] 统治
The person or group that rules a country controls its affairs.
双语例句
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。
2. [T 及物动词] 严重影响 , 制约
If something rules your life, it influences or restricts your actions in a way that is not good for you.
双语例句
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致使我们患病的。
3. [I 不及物动词] 裁定
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.
近义词
pronounce , decide , judge
双语例句
例：
The court ruled that laws passed by the assembly remained valid.
该法庭裁定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。
例：
A provincial magistrates' court last week ruled it unconstitutional.
一家省级地方法庭上周裁定其违反宪法。
例：
The committee ruled against all-night opening mainly on safety grounds.
该委员会主要出于安全方面的考虑作出了反对通宵营业的裁定。
4. [T 及物动词] 画
If you rule a straight line, you draw it using something that has a straight edge.
双语例句
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。