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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- rule [ruI] [ruːl]
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- 1. noun 规则;规矩；通例；习惯；习俗
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2.
noun
教规
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3.
noun
[legal]
法规，章程,准则
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4.
noun
[legal]
法令；裁决
- 5. noun 统治；管辖；控制
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6.
noun
统治（或管辖）期间
- 7. noun 规律；经常发生之事
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8.
noun
尺；直尺
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9.
noun
[antiquated]
行为
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10.
noun
[mathematics]
算则；公式
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11.
noun
[printing]
铅线
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12.
noun
[printing]
铅线图案
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13.
vt.
统治；管辖
- They rule their homes like tyrants.
- 他们残暴地统治着自己的国家.
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14.
vt.
控制（感情等）,左右，支配
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15.
vt.
影响
- 16. vt. 裁决，裁定
- 17. vt. （用尺等）在…上划线
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18.
vi.
统治；管辖
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19.
vi.
（价格等）保持某种比率或水平
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20.
vi.
作出裁决
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21.
vi.
[slang]
主导，成为最好的（只在某些情况下是俚语，在涂鸦中经常见）
Collins English-English Dictionary
- rule [ruːl]
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1.
n
an authoritative regulation or direction concerning method or procedure, as for a court of law, legislative body, game, or other human institution or activity
- judges' rules
- play according to the rules
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2.
n
the exercise of governmental authority or control
- the rule of Caesar
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3.
n
the period of time in which a monarch or government has power
- his rule lasted 100 days
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4.
n
a customary form or procedure; regular course of action
- he made a morning swim his rule
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5.
n
a prescribed method or procedure for solving a mathematical problem, or one constituting part of a computer program, usually expressed in an appropriate formalism
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6.
n
a formal expression of a grammatical regularity in a linguistic description of a language
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7.
n
any of various devices with a straight edge for guiding or measuring; ruler
- a carpenter's rule
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8.
n
a printed or drawn character in the form of a long thin line
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9.
n
another name for dash
- en rule
- em rule
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10.
n
a strip of brass or other metal used to print such a line
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11.
n
[Christianity]
a systematic body of prescriptions defining the way of life to be followed by members of a religious order
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12.
n
[law]
an order by a court or judge
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13.
vb
to exercise governing or controlling authority over (a people, political unit, individual, etc)
- he ruled for 20 years
- his passion for her ruled his life
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14.
vb
[
when tr, often takes a clause as object] to decide authoritatively; decree- the chairman ruled against the proposal
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15.
vt.
[tr]
to mark with straight parallel lines or make one straight line, as with a ruler
- to rule a margin
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16.
vt.
[tr]
to restrain or control
- to rule one's temper
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17.
vi.
[intr]
to be customary or prevalent
- chaos rules in this school
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18.
vi.
[intr]
to be pre-eminent or superior
- football rules in the field of sport
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19.
vt.
[tr]
[astrology]
(of a planet) to have a strong affinity with certain human attributes, activities, etc, associated with (one or sometimes two signs of the zodiac)
- Mars rules Aries
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20.
vt.
[Etymology]
C13: from Old French riule, from Latin r
e gula a straight edge; seeregulate
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1.
n
an authoritative regulation or direction concerning method or procedure, as for a court of law, legislative body, game, or other human institution or activity
Examples
- That rule still goes.
- 那规则仍有效。 → go
- a rule that holds in any case
- 适用任何场合的规则 → hold
- an inflexible rule
- 硬性的规定 → inflexible
- to rule over a land
- 统治一个国家 → over
- a rigorous rule
- 严格的规则 → rigorous
- to make it a rule never to hurry
- 定下一条决不匆忙行事的规矩 → rule
- Famine is the rule following war．
- 战争之后总要发生饥荒。 → rule
- a severe rule
- 严格的规则 → severe
- to strain a rule to one's own advantage
- 为了自己的利益滥用某一规则 → strain
- to stretch a rule
- 滥用规则 → stretch
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