rut

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; (生活、事業) 一成不變狀態[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。

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. 我們的司機在我們靠近路上的車轍時放慢了車速。

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 發情期

5. V (of male ruminants) to be in a period of sexual excitement and activity (雄性反芻動物)処於發情期