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Definition of rule in English: rulenoun ruːlrul 1One of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct or procedure within a particular area of activity. 规则；条例；细则 those who did break the rules would be dealt with swiftly 违规的人会被迅速处理。 Example sentencesExamples - In any market-place, buyers and sellers need rules which govern their conduct and prevent abuses of their respective positions.
- In your home, your house rules dictate who says and does what.
- They will explore issues such as discipline, rules, playing with their child and rewarding for good behaviour.
- Help them understand that their rules and regulations are a bit severe.
- We need to have some rules and regulations governing driving on a commercial basis for income.
- One can demonstrate to skeptics the explicit rules which govern a skill, or a game, but not those which govern an art.
- Competition was artificial, and took place according to codes of rules and the conventions of fair play.
- A broadway parish councillor is urging his fellow members to rethink a controversial new rule, which he feels limits a villager's opportunity to be heard.
- As a result, water is now subject to the same rules and regulations governing other commodities, such as oil and natural gas.
- He said he did not understand the document explaining rules and procedures for taxi drivers from the council.
- Both parents agreed that Alana requires structure and discipline, rules and guidance.
- Property purchase procedures, rules and regulations vary enormously around the world.
- It is not possible to lay down rigid rules, as each case will depend on its own circumstances.
- The proposals are the latest in a number of regulations involving the rules governing the supply and use of fireworks.
- Over here, the estate agent is governed by very strict rules, regulations.
- These managers rode roughshod over the rules that govern corporate activity and betrayed the trust of the investors.
- There are strict rules and regulations governing these types of events.
- There have to be some rules which govern procedures of courts.
- A spokesman for the facility said that under the rules and regulations governing prison staff the accused cannot be suspended from duty.
- Homicide detectives follow some pretty straightforward rules in murder investigations.
Synonyms regulation, ruling, directive, order, court order, act, law, by-law, statute, edict, canon, ordinance, pronouncement, mandate, command, dictate, dictum, decree, fiat, proclamation, injunction, commandment, prescription, stipulation, requirement, precept, guideline, direction in Tsarist Russia ukase in Spain & Spanish-speaking countries pronunciamento - 1.1 A principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable.
法则；规章；规则；原则 语法规则。 Example sentencesExamples - Silicon Valley is still operating under the rules and values I described nearly three years ago.
- Once the bin is full, the rules of composting say that you should turn the material in the bin every few weeks.
- When Sun-hwa is dragged into her life of prostitution, she is also brought into a world that operates under completely different rules.
- There are certain things that enhance health, including the maintenance of basic rules of hygiene, religious practices and respecting norms of behaviour.
- The Internet operates by very different rules from other electronic information systems.
- Every Hollywood blockbuster operates by these rules to some extent, but few, if any push this style to this extreme.
- The first rule for controlling rose diseases is prevention.
- People and the physical world do not operate solely by the rules of deductive logic, therefore deductive logic is insufficient to solve problems in the real world.
- To get through it unscathed, we all have to play by our own rules as much as possible.
- Clay also has rules - discipline - which must be followed initially, as you are learning to work with the medium.
- Evidently you, your editor, and your organization do not operate under the same rules of journalism.
- It is a descriptive fact that some people do eat peas with a knife, just as many speakers of English do not follow the rules of prescriptive grammars.
- Once again, we cannot want a world that operates by these rules - but that is the world we would be promoting.
Synonyms precept, principle, standard, axiom, truth, truism, maxim, aphorism - 1.2 A code of practice and discipline for a religious order or community.
（教会或社区的）教规，教条 圣本尼迪克特教规。 Example sentencesExamples - New-style communities based on a rule, first provided by St Augustine of Hippo, but refined and made more austere at the end of the eleventh century, emerged.
- Benedict drew up a rule for the monastic communities which were based on needs and functions.
- Toward the end of his life, Benedict drew up his rule for this community.
2mass noun Control of or dominion over an area or people. 控制；统治；管辖 the revolution brought an end to British rule 这次革命结束了英国的统治。 Example sentencesExamples - The invasion was preceded by a concerted press campaign demonising the Spanish for their tyrannical and brutal colonial rule.
- During its sixty years of colonial rule, Britain controlled the population by fomenting regional and ethnic divisions.
- Three years later Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate at Edo that would last until the re-establishment of imperial rule in 1868.
- However the price that had to be paid, was a strict and oppressive rule that controlled even the most trivial things of everyday's life.
- However, more than 500 years of Muslim rule in the area left a lasting legacy.
- It puts the Republicans in a strange position, because they are in favor of local control and local rule, and here it is on television, local democracy in action.
- There is no stipulation of a time limit for US political rule and economic control over the country's resources.
- But then, if you remember - it was salt-making that Gandhi chose as his first symbolic challenge to British imperial rule over India.
- Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus.
- During the later stages of British rule it had exercised considerable administrative independence.
- Frustrated residents have formed a new group to try to win back a ‘no-go area’ from yob rule.
- They held great power, and the British, while in control of the country, allowed for local rule in remote areas.
- The uprising against imperial rule went on for many years until Numancia was finally besieged and burned to the ground.
- During the decades of Soviet rule, the government controlled the economy.
- Ulster was always the largest area under Gaelic rule since medieval times.
- Democracy has been conveniently thrown out the door and in its wake imperialist and dictatorial rule reign supreme.
- Lasting only ten months before Spain resumed control, Britain's rule was of short duration.
- After a century of colonial rule and decades of control by the South African apartheid government, Namibians were given a chance to elect their own leader.
- We found that there were many countries in the area where Soviet rule had either banned music or modified instruments.
- When independence was declared in 1962, the area reverted to Tutsi rule.
Synonyms control, jurisdiction, command, power, sway, dominion, government, administration, sovereignty, leadership, ascendancy, supremacy, authority, direction, mastery, hegemony, regime, influence Indian raj archaic regiment 3the ruleThe normal or customary state of things. 正常情况；普遍情况；惯例，通例 such accidents are the exception rather than the rule 这样的事故是例外而不是普遍情况。 Example sentencesExamples - Signals, carriages and engines all need major upgrading while delays, derailments and breakdowns are the rule rather than the exception.
- Mallatt argues that such internal arches were the rule, rather than the exception, despite the lack of specific fossil evidence.
- Those digital tools still represent the exception rather than the rule, but old media is finally beginning to put new media to work on real audience needs.
- Guilt is the reference to the rule or norm and the implied or stated fact that the child is bad for not adhering to it.
- Organizations that face trying conditions with catastrophic potential have now become the rule rather than the exception.
- There was a time, decades ago, when third-level education was the exception rather than the rule in Irish society; that is no longer the case.
- In the history of art they are the rule rather than the exception.
- But York is the exception rather than the rule, Mr Hinchliffe says.
- At first it was optional but soon it became a habit and finally the rule.
- From what I hear from patients everyday, you would think that fast and abstinence is the rule rather than exception.
- It's become the norm rather than the rule, and it does nothing to enhance the credibility of the medical profession.
- In the study of environmental toxins, the causation of diverse effects is usually the rule rather than the exception.
- Meldrew and Greengrass, though, are the exceptions rather than the rule, she says.
- To date this has been the exception rather than the rule, resulting in children becoming therapeutic orphans sometimes with tragic consequences.
- Nor does it rule out individual cases of badly managed towns; it just means they are the exception, rather than the rule.
- Knowing the results show most are late, we hope less stigma is attached to finishing late, as it is the rule rather than the exception.
- Starvation is mercifully the exception rather than the rule - when it still exists, it is the result of social inequality rather than an absolute failure to produce food.
- One lorry contained some very fine items of bedroom and sitting room furniture at good prices but this was the exception rather than the rule on the day.
- As with other forms of prejudice such stereotypes are largely false - for example, it is the exception rather than the rule for older people to become confused.
- Ben is putting more controls in place so that this sort of thing stays an exception to the rule, rather than the norm.
Synonyms procedure, practice, protocol, convention, standard, norm, form, routine, custom, habit, wont formal praxis 4A strip of wood or other rigid material used for measuring length or marking straight lines; a ruler. 尺，直尺，计算尺 Example sentencesExamples - When there are bubbles, cut into the veneer with a sharp razor blade using a steel rule for guidance.
- Bench rules were often made of maple, log and board rules of hickory, and blacksmith's rules and counter measures of brass.
- The plastic template contains rules, measures and a hole-punching guide.
- Using pen and rule, draw a rectangle or square on top of the book you want to alter.
- Use a rule and a sharp pencil and move rule and pencil along the wall to give a pencil line on the paper.
Synonyms system, standard, units, scale - 4.1 A thin printed line or dash.
铅线印出的线；破折号 Example sentencesExamples - In accordance with guidelines for advertising labeling in print newspapers, a thin black rule was placed just after the sponsorship.
5Australian short for Australian Rules
verb ruːlrul 1with object Exercise ultimate power or authority over (an area and its people) 统治；管理；管辖（地方及其人民） Latin America today is ruled by elected politicians 拉丁美洲现在由当选的政治家管理。 no object the period in which Spain ruled over Portugal 西班牙统治葡萄牙的时期。 Example sentencesExamples - This expansion into Welsh territory led to the establishment of the March of Wales, an area previously ruled by the Welsh kings.
- During this period, Byzantine art flourished in many areas no longer ruled by the emperor.
- By the end of the eighteenth century, a Turkish tribe called the Qajars ruled the area now known as Iran.
- Now at the peak of his power, he ruled three quarters of the Welsh population.
- Ancient Egypt declined, was overrun and thereafter ruled by foreign powers.
- Other ethnic groups joined them to form the three kingdoms that ruled the area before the arrival of Europeans: the Kongo, Loango, and Teke.
- Although Polyneices is next in line to rule Thebes, Eteocles claims the throne for himself with the support of Creon and exiles his brother.
- Many powers have ruled the land, under many different names.
- This group ruled the area during the eighth and ninth centuries.
- The House of Saud has ruled Saudi Arabia since the country's founding in 1932.
- Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively ruled the area.
- The Turkish Ottoman Empire took control in 1516 and ruled the area for four hundred years.
- But the Ruthenians of Galicia had no wish to be ruled over by Poles and drew close to the Czechs in defence of Austro-Slavism.
- Having been ruled by foreign powers since the sixteenth century, Moldova declared its independence on 27 August 1991.
- So that means that for five of the last eight years, all-powerful, unelected leaders have ruled over us.
- Beginning in the 10th century, they were ruled by a line of sacred kings and queens called the Tu'i Tonga.
- For over 650 years, a Muslim government based in Delhi ruled much of the area that makes up modern Pakistan.
- This provided a defensive stronghold for the Prince Bishops of Durham, who for centuries ruled the area with their own armies, courts and coinage.
- Previous governments had ended quickly and violently, the people wanted to be ruled over by a single capable man.
- For centuries, Libya was ruled by foreign powers.
Synonyms govern, preside over, control, have control of, be in control of, lead, be the leader of, dominate, run, head, direct, administer, manage, regulate literary sway be in power, be in control, hold sway, be in authority, be in command, be in charge, govern, be at the helm reign, sit on the throne, wear the crown, wield the sceptre, be monarch, be sovereign - 1.1 (of a feeling) have a powerful and restricting influence on.
（感情）强烈影响（人的生活）；控制；支配；遏制 her whole life seemed to be ruled by fear 她的一生似乎都被恐惧所笼罩着。 Example sentencesExamples - He knew what he was doing and he wasn't going to let anger rule him.
- By using food to fix our draggy moods and low energy, we're letting our emotions rule our bodies, and we're getting fatter in the bargain.
- The ‘obsessional’ type, ruled by the super-ego, was ruled by fear of the naggings of conscience.
- While it's true that people can be lucky and do win on hunches, too many passive players consistently let impulse rule their responses.
- But Amanda was tired of being ruled by her fear and guilt.
- His actions had confused her entirely, and in the end, she had let fear rule her actions.
- I always seemed to let my emotions rule me and I couldn't follow my heart this time, because for once I didn't know what my heart wanted.
- Essentially, nobody knew what was going on, and emotions were ruling some heads that should have been kept cooler.
- Let's hope that Congress exercises some sensible judgement today and doesn't let emotion rule the day.
- Embarrassment and anger ruled her actions now.
- I felt that the entire environment at the university was ruled by fear and intimidation by the faculty, and some of the professors were very unkind to people like me who were struggling to keep up.
- But one club is booming - a place where nostalgia rules and lager is the drug of choice.
- She knew letting the grief rule her would get her nowhere, but she didn't care.
- If we allow fear to rule our lives, to govern our travel plans, our ambitions and hopes, then they have won.
- With eight games remaining and only two away, the team's destiny is in their own hands but they must learn from this experience and not let complacency rule the day.
- There are times when you'll have every right to be angry, but you should never let that emotion rule you, or guide you.
- The man was a rock, and never let his emotions rule what he said or how he acted or reacted.
- Too often investors will let their emotions rule their investment decisions with disastrous results.
- After a brief, initial fascination, the town quickly turns against the boy, and hysteria rules the day.
- The boy had about as much sense as his mother, letting his passions rule him instead of his head.
- 1.2no object Be a dominant or powerful factor.
起支配作用，占上风；居首位 with complement the black market rules supreme 黑市占了上风。 Example sentencesExamples - However, in Sligo it would appear the pedestrians rule supreme.
- In the days when horse power ruled supreme on farms, the powerful Shire breed was the usual one in South Westmorland and North Lancashire.
- In this film, death rules supreme, with the plot simply tracing an endless cycle of annihilation, utterly unredeemed by any intent or outcome.
- The end of the twentieth century, with the collapse of the Stalinist states, seemed to usher in an era where democracy would rule supreme.
- But if the market ruled supreme in theory during the 1980s and 1990s, reality was different.
- A little further uptown is Lesbomonde, where the ladies rule supreme.
- Fauvism was the first movement of this modern period, in which color ruled supreme.
- In particular, the logic of the gold mines seemed to rule supreme.
- In Boston, for example, where German romanticism ruled supreme, German immigration remained at bay.
- Terror becomes total when it becomes independent of all opposition; it rules supreme when nobody any longer stands in its way.
- Dealing with gay life in Parisian society as no work before or since has ever done, A la Recherche laid bare a world in which sexual fluidity ruled supreme.
- But if you visit The Venue on other than a weekend night, when music rules supreme, you will find though that there is more to this pub than just music.
- Even in India, its birthplace, where it has been ruling supreme for the last 3,000 years, it has not been able to permeate the masses.
- National Hunt racing rules supreme in this country.
- The Springboks continue to rule supreme as the world's rugby champions.
- Under prohibition, drugs are controlled by the law of the jungle in which some of the worst criminals on the face of the earth rule supreme.
- The libidinal spirit of fun rules supreme in these small acrylic canvasses.
- What does an honorable man do in times when dishonor rules supreme?
- He excelled in an era when the manager ruled totally.
- League leaders Warton dropped their first points of the season thanks to rain ruling supreme on Saturday.
Synonyms prevail, obtain, be the order of the day, predominate, hold sway, be supreme - 1.3informal no object Be very good or the best.
〈非正式〉极好；最好 Jackie tells me about Hanna's newest band, and says that it absolutely rules 杰基告诉我汉纳最新乐队的情况，还说这支乐队绝对是最好的。 Example sentencesExamples - This film rules! It has the coolest zombies I have ever seen!
- This band rules, but it's a good prediction that the vocalist will ruin it.
- 1.4Astrology (of a planet) have a particular influence over (a sign of the zodiac, house, etc.)
〔占星〕（行星）对（黄道十二宫图的宫，房子，生活等）有影响 the tenth House, ruled by Saturn and associated with Capricorn Example sentencesExamples - Mars rules both Aries and Scorpio, but in Aries, its diurnal rulership, its energies are expressed more openly and directly.
- The moon rules my sign, maybe this is why I'm a night owl.
- Aries and Scorpio were ruled by the same planet, which was Mars, the war-god of passion, activity, and courage.
- This combination is often regarded as slightly cold and mechanical to the warmer signs of the Zodiac; those born into Sun or Moon signs ruled by fire.
- The first sign in the Zodiac, you're ruled by Mars, the action planet, and are a natural leader and innovator.
2with clause Pronounce authoritatively and legally to be the case. 裁决，裁定 an industrial tribunal ruled that he was unfairly dismissed from his job 工业法庭裁定解雇他是不公平的。 Example sentencesExamples - But he ruled that the High Court order breached the principle of the separation of powers and would unduly restrict the Government in developing child care policy.
- The trial judge ruled that contributory negligence was not a defence to the claims in negligent misrepresentation and fraud and excluded this evidence.
- The magistrates' court ruled that it had no power to determine whether Mr Ferris had been liable to pay child support maintenance.
- Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court ruled that federal drug laws trump policies in ten states that permit medicinal marijuana use.
- Richards has since stated that he would hold his hand on appointing the tribunal until the courts ruled on the judicial review motion.
- The appeal court upheld the High Court judge's ruling that the benefits of vaccination outweighed the risks.
- The plaintiff succeeded at trial, but the Court of Appeal ruled that the judge had erred in leaving the case to the jury.
- The court ruled that the detainees were legally analogous to German prisoners captured on the battlefield in World War II.
- After putting certain further questions to the appellant, the judge ruled that he had waived privilege.
- A state appellate court ruled that federal law pre-empted the state claims.
- A burglar whose release from jail was delayed for 21 days after he tested positive for drugs is taking his battle to the court of appeal after a High Court judge ruled that the penalty should stand.
- Lewis and Cox were both in the courtroom when the court ruled that each state district had to have roughly the same number of people.
- In a case decided in 1950 the Brussels Court Martial had already ruled that torture in time of armed conflict was prohibited by a customary international law rule.
- By majority opinion the appeal court judges ruled that wire tapping prohibitions apply to messages in temporary storage because this stage is integral to the communications process.
- However, the judge ruled that the jury should be discharged and so it was.
- Contrary to submissions made by the plaintiff, I rule that the defendants are parties to the action.
- In 1996, a federal district court ruled that such inequities do exist.
- On April 26, the Tokyo District Court ruled that the plaintiffs' rights of freedom of religion have not been violated by the visits.
- Nearly simultaneously, however, a federal district court ruled that an Ohio city could be sued for discriminatory effects.
- In February 2000 a High Court judge ruled that Johnson was insane and incapable of deciding to end his life.
Synonyms decree, order, direct, pronounce, make a judgement, judge, adjudge, adjudicate, lay down, ordain decide, find, determine, resolve, settle, establish, hold rare asseverate 3with object Make parallel lines across (paper) 在（纸）上画平行线 rule the pages horizontally and print the information within the rules Example sentencesExamples - A workhorse of a machine was busy feeding a swath of yellow paper from one of these rolls, mechanically ruling the paper with calibrated pins dipped in blue ink.
- Written on ruled paper, the letter was found in a pile of papers at the Greens's home in Gloucestershire.
- Robin got a map from the Land Office with a lot of lines ruled on it, from which the position of our holding could be deduced.
4no object, with adverbial (of a price or a traded commodity with regard to its price) have a specified general level or strength. （价格或贸易商品的价格）普遍处于某一水平（或坚挺趋势） in the jutes section Indus and Pak Jute ruled firm 在黄麻部分，印度和巴基斯坦黄麻走势普遍坚挺。 Example sentencesExamples - On July 15, 1874, at the Ackley House stables, Mr. John Waddle offered twelve cows and one bull at public auction, but prices ruled so low that they were soon withdrawn from market.
- There were large numbers of horses of various kinds at the Stow-on-the-Wold October Fair, but very little trade, prices ruling low.
- In difficult years, when the crop fell short of expectations and market prices ruled high, the majority of consumers in this poor country were unable to afford the market price prevailing for essential foodgrains.
- The cherry crop was immense, and despite the abundance of this fruit the prices ruled high.
- Ten years ago, interest rates ruled very high and therefore it did not require any great financial acumen for investing.
PhrasesUsually, but not always. 通常，一般说来 any architect knows that, as a rule, old buildings are more soundly built than new ones Example sentencesExamples - As I've said above, I've been surprised to learn how poorly paid title designers are as a rule.
- Again, Aristotle's notion of the goal of tragedy is odd: do tragedies always, or even as a rule, purge their audience of pity and fear?
- The landscapes, as a rule, were depicted as unpeopled, pristine environments.
- Most men wear pleated trousers, which as a rule, should always have cuffs.
- Generally, as a rule, it is best to take your herb tea one hour before eating, on an empty stomach.
- One member commented that, as a rule, trippers were a nuisance - they thought they could do as they pleased and go wherever they liked.
- Young people, as a rule, prefer novelty to conventions, breaking fresh ground to following the beaten track.
- Action thrillers contain lots of twists and turns as a rule, usually of a kind we have all seen a dozen times before.
- Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a ship's company was ordered to assemble into their divisions.
- Ellen had always taken a direct approach with her brother, and as a rule there were no secrets between them.
Synonyms usually, generally, in general, normally, ordinarily, customarily, almost always, for the most part, on the whole, by and large, in the main, mainly, mostly, more often than not, commonly, typically, on average, in most cases
In a regular manner according to a particular set of rules. 按规则，照规矩，循规蹈矩地 stress is not predictable by rule and must be learned word by word 重音不可按规则预测，必须逐词学习。 Example sentencesExamples - Even better, it gives a way to help memorize them, by allowing one to work out the answer by rule if one cannot remember it by rote.
- Also, remember that, by rule, a wild card can't play a team from its division in the first round.
- This base map will develop into a heritage master plan, which will be preserved by rule.
- Edwards came from the back of the pack, where by rule he had been sent following a pre-race engine change, and outdueled veteran Ted Musgrave for the win.
- Athena in Colaba is among the few clubs which by rule do not allow those under 21.
- The interval lasted about ten minutes longer than the quarter-hour allowed by rule, courtesy of a late return to the field by Kerry.
- Anything constructed by rule will probably have too much order in it.
- Is the phenomenon confined to the diocesan or secular clergy or has it also touched the regulars, men who live by rule and vow?
- Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling, instinct, not by rule.
- The Director of Transportation, by rule, may provide for issuance of a valid license without a photograph if the applicant shows good cause.
make it a rule to do something Have it as a habit or general principle to do something. 有做某事的习惯，有做某事的原则 I make it a rule never to mix business with pleasure 不把工作和娱乐弄混，这是我的原则。 Example sentencesExamples - About five days ago, Jacob made it a rule to get back into shape.
- I made it a rule to put down in writing, after every conversation, what had taken place.
- Coming from a big family meant she enjoyed the customers and, like Henry, made it a rule to treat everyone the same.
- I make it a rule to ignore goofy self-help gurus proffering their brand of cheese or fish or whatever.
- Ever since then I have made it a rule to remember his words and the training goal they represent whenever I practice.
- Asked if he ever stopped, he answered that he and Ljubica tried to make it a rule to do so by ten o'clock at night, having begun more than twelve hours before.
- He had never been to this place before, always made it a rule to stay away.
- I've now made it a rule to take care of at least one niggling work-related task each day.
- Former prime ministers had made it a rule to visit the shrine during the shrine's festival in spring, or sometime in autumn, or on Aug 15.
- Even though my firm is operating in an unregulated environment, I have always made it a rule to present clients with clear illustrations of the effects of charges on their proposed investment vehicles.
A set of conventions or principles governing behaviour in a particular sphere. the economic crisis changed the rules of the game Example sentencesExamples - We have always observed the rules of the game between senior and junior ranks.
- Forward-thinking start-ups materialize and change the rules of the game almost overnight.
- I think he would have regarded any such appeal by a philosopher in a philosophical work as a breach of the rules of the game.
- The new government simply believes globalisation is an irresistible force that cannot be beaten, so the best it can do is play by the rules of the game.
- They determined that they now must change the rules of the game through electoral reform.
The restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws. 法律原则；法治 when military dictators fall, the democrats who follow them must try to restore the rule of law Example sentencesExamples - What has happened to the concept of the rule of law, due process and the presumption of innocence?
- The Council also affirms the need for respect for human rights and the rule of law.
- That decision demonstrated that this country upholds the rule of law and basic human rights.
- If tribunals were to be at liberty to exceed their jurisdiction without any check by the courts, the rule of law would be at an end.
- In the absence of the rule of law, restraint and legitimate redress for unfair practice were also absent.
- It will entrench and help spread democracy, the rule of law and human rights.
- You can't have a notion of the rule of law and not have access to judicial review.
- It is a fundamental requisite of the rule of law that the law should be made known.
- The Prime Minister overrides the rule of law and declares a coroner's enquiry unnecessary.
- Citizen investigation or citizen arrest is an important part of a society under rule of law.
A broadly accurate guide or principle, based on practice rather than theory. 经验法则，凭经验（或实践）得来的法则 a useful rule of thumb is that about ten hours will be needed to analyse each hour of recorded data Example sentencesExamples - Observation of individuals shows that people are much more likely to use rules of thumb when making complex decisions.
- As a rule of thumb, allow one houseplant per 100 square feet of living area.
- I want to suggest that this is in fact a rather useful rule of thumb for linguists and philologists.
- This is a good rule of thumb, and the first principle we use in evaluating potential home remedies.
- As a rough rule of thumb, the best rates are available either over the internet or from some of the aggressive building societies.
- A good rule of thumb would be to use colors based upon the type of effect you're trying to achieve.
- The rule of thumb usually is to have three days of food and water and whatever essentials you might have.
- Given that forecasts were so inaccurate, I thought it might be preferable to rely on projections based on simple rules of thumb.
- A widely adopted rule of thumb in crystallisation theory is that better crystals can be obtained using programmed cooling.
- The general rules of thumb for a good private detective, Eddie said, are to be able to blend in, to act normally and be discreet.
Be in complete control. 主宰；支配；当家 in this particular society men rule the roost and women have a low status and few rights Example sentencesExamples - With the water starting its autumnal cool down the maggot anglers are now ruling the roost as the fish move into deeper water.
- It is the children who are ruling the roost, calling the shorts, setting conditions.
- With soap operas ruling the roost, film industry in general has slowly begun to lose its ‘sheen’ among the masses.
- Doctors are in short supply in the interior areas, quacks are ruling the roost there.
- Women don't need protection nowadays - they're the ones ruling the roost.
- Rather than a progressive process that inevitably led to Homo sapiens ruling the roost, Gee persuades the reader that evolution is based upon a random selection.
- She was employed as a cook some years ago, but now she rules the roost.
- Our democracy is crumbling with the politics of fear and prejudice ruling the roost, an electoral system which is corrupt and unrepresentative.
- Before you know it we will be ruling the roost again.
- Mickey is now recovering from his ordeal and is getting back to ruling the roost.
Synonyms be in charge of, run, be in control of, manage, direct, administer, head, preside over, have authority over, supervise, superintend, oversee, guide, steer
Examine cursorily for correctness or adequacy. 〈英〉粗略检查（是否正确或恰当） he had the chance to run the rule over the Brazil team Example sentencesExamples - After that, it's time for an Arts Council review, with a British theatre director expected to be appointed to run the rule over the Abbey.
- Emily Bell runs the rule over who should be the new chairman of the BBC
- After some big surprises in the nominations, Jessica Winter runs the rule over this year's hopefuls
- York City manager Terry Dolan took an additional chance to run the rule over his new charges this afternoon.
- It will also be an ideal opportunity for us to run the rule over him at senior level before next season.
- But after running the rule over the club's playing squad in pre-season, he's liked what he's seen and can't wait for the first whistle at Swansea tomorrow.
- Barrow is also targeting an experienced striker, a left-sided player and will be running the rule over a number of trialists once the players are back in training on July 4.
- With city analysts constantly running the rule over its operations and competitors moving operations offshore, there would be enormous pressure to cut jobs here.
- The Stanley manager has been running the rule over his squad during their extensive pre-season fixtures in preparation for the big kick-off at Aldershot on Sunday.
- Since the business went into administration, few concrete details about just who was running the rule over the bus company had leaked out.
Phrasal Verbsrule something out (or in) Exclude (or include) something as a possibility. 排除（不排除）…的可能性 the prime minister ruled out a November election 首相排除了11月份进行选举的可能性。 Example sentencesExamples - The strain of her illness was made almost unbearable when Kevin and Tina found out that they had been ruled out as possible donors.
- It is possible to develop an allergy to a product you've been using for years, so don't rule this possibility out.
- Something in her voice sounded as if she hadn't ruled the possibility out.
- I don't rule the possibility out, but tend to think it is unlikely.
- There have been a number of dog thefts in recent months and while we are not linking them specifically we don't rule this possibility out.
- At the time of writing it would be only a daylight facility, but lighting the bays, and possibly the range has not been ruled out.
- Since phlebotomy and technical errors were ruled out, the possibility existed that the mother had developed an antibody to a paternal antigen that she did not possess which was inherited by each twin.
- They are happy as long as I give it a try, give it my best before absolutely ruling it out as a possibility.
- It could have been that she was model, but most people ruled that possibility out.
- And therefore a possibility of that exists, certainly, one wouldn't rule it out.
- Possible sightings have been ruled out and equipment which can be used to detect if earth has been recently disturbed has found nothing.
- The judge said that he thought this unlikely, although he could not rule it out as a possibility.
- However, he would not rule it out as a future possibility.
- Although separation would not take place at this stage, it had not been ruled out as a possibility should the twins defy the odds and survive, he added.
- After other possible causes of the child's symptoms are ruled out, the doctor may recommend an elimination diet to help diagnose and identify a food allergy.
- Although the specific locus of task-set inhibition is not yet clear from the available evidence, three possibilities can be ruled out.
- But the possibility that life could originate on the ocean surface has not been ruled out.
- Once physical causes are ruled out, your doctor may refer you to a mental-health professional who specializes in treating anxiety disorders.
- While the priority at present is to rent the property at £l,500 per month, the possibility of a sale has not been ruled out and the price can be negotiated.
- Your doctor must rule them out before being certain you have asthma.
Synonyms exclude, eliminate, reject, dismiss, disregard
Derivativesadjective This is why so many people consciously favor or sanction ruleless and poorly structured forms of therapy and in their personal lives, bend rules and avoid making lasting commitments to others. Example sentencesExamples - The web is a terrible, confusing, violent, ruleless place that has run wild and cannot be harnessed and will never be placed under the benevolent, watchful eye of government!
- By the eighties, the ghetto had become a ruleless war zone, where people were their own worst enemies.
- A seemingly ruleless game, its thrust apparently is to score, win, run in one direction.
- Those who like crisp rules tend to think rules are needed to have real law and think ruleless ‘judgment’ is not law.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French reule (noun), reuler (verb), from late Latin regulare, from Latin regula 'straight stick'. We think of rules as giving us lines to follow, and the word goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, and beyond that to regere ‘to rule’, the source of regency and royal (Late Middle English). To rule the roost is to be in complete control. The original form of the phrase was rule the roast, from the end of the 15th century, which may imply that it referred to the most important person at a banquet or feast. Roast changed to roost in the 18th century when people started thinking about a cockerel asserting itself over the other roosting birds in the farmyard. The rule in run the rule over, ‘to examine quickly’, is a measuring stick or ruler. It has the same meaning in rule of thumb, ‘a broadly accurate guide based on practice rather than theory’. This expression, recorded from 1692, is probably from the ancient use of parts of the body, such as the foot and the hand, as units of measurement. The first joint of a man's thumb is about an inch long, and so is useful for making rough measurements when you have mislaid your ruler. See also rail
RhymesBanjul, befool, Boole, boule, boules, boulle, cagoule, cool, drool, fool, ghoul, Joule, mewl, misrule, mule, O'Toole, pool, Poole, pul, pule, Raoul, school, shul, sool, spool, Stamboul, stool, Thule, tomfool, tulle, you'll, yule Definition of rule in US English: rulenounrulro͞ol 1One of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct within a particular activity or sphere. 规则；条例；细则 the rules of the game were understood 比赛规则弄清楚了。 Example sentencesExamples - Both parents agreed that Alana requires structure and discipline, rules and guidance.
- Homicide detectives follow some pretty straightforward rules in murder investigations.
- There have to be some rules which govern procedures of courts.
- There are strict rules and regulations governing these types of events.
- Competition was artificial, and took place according to codes of rules and the conventions of fair play.
- The proposals are the latest in a number of regulations involving the rules governing the supply and use of fireworks.
- Over here, the estate agent is governed by very strict rules, regulations.
- Help them understand that their rules and regulations are a bit severe.
- Property purchase procedures, rules and regulations vary enormously around the world.
- It is not possible to lay down rigid rules, as each case will depend on its own circumstances.
- In your home, your house rules dictate who says and does what.
- These managers rode roughshod over the rules that govern corporate activity and betrayed the trust of the investors.
- In any market-place, buyers and sellers need rules which govern their conduct and prevent abuses of their respective positions.
- A broadway parish councillor is urging his fellow members to rethink a controversial new rule, which he feels limits a villager's opportunity to be heard.
- We need to have some rules and regulations governing driving on a commercial basis for income.
- As a result, water is now subject to the same rules and regulations governing other commodities, such as oil and natural gas.
- They will explore issues such as discipline, rules, playing with their child and rewarding for good behaviour.
- He said he did not understand the document explaining rules and procedures for taxi drivers from the council.
- A spokesman for the facility said that under the rules and regulations governing prison staff the accused cannot be suspended from duty.
- One can demonstrate to skeptics the explicit rules which govern a skill, or a game, but not those which govern an art.
Synonyms regulation, ruling, directive, order, court order, act, law, by-law, statute, edict, canon, ordinance, pronouncement, mandate, command, dictate, dictum, decree, fiat, proclamation, injunction, commandment, prescription, stipulation, requirement, precept, guideline, direction - 1.1 A principle that operates within a particular sphere of knowledge, describing or prescribing what is possible or allowable.
法则；规章；规则；原则 语法规则。 Example sentencesExamples - Silicon Valley is still operating under the rules and values I described nearly three years ago.
- Once the bin is full, the rules of composting say that you should turn the material in the bin every few weeks.
- There are certain things that enhance health, including the maintenance of basic rules of hygiene, religious practices and respecting norms of behaviour.
- The Internet operates by very different rules from other electronic information systems.
- Every Hollywood blockbuster operates by these rules to some extent, but few, if any push this style to this extreme.
- To get through it unscathed, we all have to play by our own rules as much as possible.
- Once again, we cannot want a world that operates by these rules - but that is the world we would be promoting.
- Evidently you, your editor, and your organization do not operate under the same rules of journalism.
- The first rule for controlling rose diseases is prevention.
- Clay also has rules - discipline - which must be followed initially, as you are learning to work with the medium.
- It is a descriptive fact that some people do eat peas with a knife, just as many speakers of English do not follow the rules of prescriptive grammars.
- People and the physical world do not operate solely by the rules of deductive logic, therefore deductive logic is insufficient to solve problems in the real world.
- When Sun-hwa is dragged into her life of prostitution, she is also brought into a world that operates under completely different rules.
Synonyms precept, principle, standard, axiom, truth, truism, maxim, aphorism - 1.2 A code of practice and discipline for a religious order or community.
（教会或社区的）教规，教条 圣本尼迪克特教规。 Example sentencesExamples - Benedict drew up a rule for the monastic communities which were based on needs and functions.
- Toward the end of his life, Benedict drew up his rule for this community.
- New-style communities based on a rule, first provided by St Augustine of Hippo, but refined and made more austere at the end of the eleventh century, emerged.
2Control of or dominion over an area or people. 控制；统治；管辖 the revolution brought an end to British rule 这次革命结束了英国的统治。 Example sentencesExamples - When independence was declared in 1962, the area reverted to Tutsi rule.
- During the later stages of British rule it had exercised considerable administrative independence.
- There is no stipulation of a time limit for US political rule and economic control over the country's resources.
- Three years later Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate at Edo that would last until the re-establishment of imperial rule in 1868.
- Frustrated residents have formed a new group to try to win back a ‘no-go area’ from yob rule.
- After a century of colonial rule and decades of control by the South African apartheid government, Namibians were given a chance to elect their own leader.
- Lasting only ten months before Spain resumed control, Britain's rule was of short duration.
- But then, if you remember - it was salt-making that Gandhi chose as his first symbolic challenge to British imperial rule over India.
- The uprising against imperial rule went on for many years until Numancia was finally besieged and burned to the ground.
- During its sixty years of colonial rule, Britain controlled the population by fomenting regional and ethnic divisions.
- We found that there were many countries in the area where Soviet rule had either banned music or modified instruments.
- They held great power, and the British, while in control of the country, allowed for local rule in remote areas.
- During the decades of Soviet rule, the government controlled the economy.
- However, more than 500 years of Muslim rule in the area left a lasting legacy.
- It puts the Republicans in a strange position, because they are in favor of local control and local rule, and here it is on television, local democracy in action.
- Ulster was always the largest area under Gaelic rule since medieval times.
- However the price that had to be paid, was a strict and oppressive rule that controlled even the most trivial things of everyday's life.
- Democracy has been conveniently thrown out the door and in its wake imperialist and dictatorial rule reign supreme.
- The invasion was preceded by a concerted press campaign demonising the Spanish for their tyrannical and brutal colonial rule.
- Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus.
Synonyms control, jurisdiction, command, power, sway, dominion, government, administration, sovereignty, leadership, ascendancy, supremacy, authority, direction, mastery, hegemony, regime, influence 3the ruleThe normal or customary state of things. 正常情况；普遍情况；惯例，通例 such accidents are the exception rather than the rule 这样的事故是例外而不是普遍情况。 Example sentencesExamples - Starvation is mercifully the exception rather than the rule - when it still exists, it is the result of social inequality rather than an absolute failure to produce food.
- Signals, carriages and engines all need major upgrading while delays, derailments and breakdowns are the rule rather than the exception.
- As with other forms of prejudice such stereotypes are largely false - for example, it is the exception rather than the rule for older people to become confused.
- It's become the norm rather than the rule, and it does nothing to enhance the credibility of the medical profession.
- Ben is putting more controls in place so that this sort of thing stays an exception to the rule, rather than the norm.
- Guilt is the reference to the rule or norm and the implied or stated fact that the child is bad for not adhering to it.
- Those digital tools still represent the exception rather than the rule, but old media is finally beginning to put new media to work on real audience needs.
- At first it was optional but soon it became a habit and finally the rule.
- But York is the exception rather than the rule, Mr Hinchliffe says.
- In the history of art they are the rule rather than the exception.
- Mallatt argues that such internal arches were the rule, rather than the exception, despite the lack of specific fossil evidence.
- Meldrew and Greengrass, though, are the exceptions rather than the rule, she says.
- There was a time, decades ago, when third-level education was the exception rather than the rule in Irish society; that is no longer the case.
- Knowing the results show most are late, we hope less stigma is attached to finishing late, as it is the rule rather than the exception.
- In the study of environmental toxins, the causation of diverse effects is usually the rule rather than the exception.
- To date this has been the exception rather than the rule, resulting in children becoming therapeutic orphans sometimes with tragic consequences.
- From what I hear from patients everyday, you would think that fast and abstinence is the rule rather than exception.
- Nor does it rule out individual cases of badly managed towns; it just means they are the exception, rather than the rule.
- Organizations that face trying conditions with catastrophic potential have now become the rule rather than the exception.
- One lorry contained some very fine items of bedroom and sitting room furniture at good prices but this was the exception rather than the rule on the day.
Synonyms procedure, practice, protocol, convention, standard, norm, form, routine, custom, habit, wont 4A strip of wood or other rigid material used for measuring length or marking straight lines; a ruler. 尺，直尺，计算尺 Example sentencesExamples - When there are bubbles, cut into the veneer with a sharp razor blade using a steel rule for guidance.
- Bench rules were often made of maple, log and board rules of hickory, and blacksmith's rules and counter measures of brass.
- Use a rule and a sharp pencil and move rule and pencil along the wall to give a pencil line on the paper.
- Using pen and rule, draw a rectangle or square on top of the book you want to alter.
- The plastic template contains rules, measures and a hole-punching guide.
Synonyms system, standard, units, scale - 4.1 A thin printed line or dash, generally used to separate headings, columns, or sections of text.
Example sentencesExamples - In accordance with guidelines for advertising labeling in print newspapers, a thin black rule was placed just after the sponsorship.
5Australian short for Australian Rules (football) - 5.1Law An order made by a judge or court with reference to a particular case only.
Example sentencesExamples - This is a rule made by the judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria in the exercise of their delegated legislative power.
- The case is an unusual one in that it does not appear to me that, despite these extraordinary delays, Mrs Anderson can be said ever to have been in breach of any rule or order of the court.
- The court concluded that the rule laid down in Miller properly disposed of that specific case, but the Supreme Court intended it to go no further.
- But when one is talking about the ability to do something not authorised by statute, there is a real question whether a rule of court can deal with it.
- The land-value increment tax, on the other hand, is facing a serious setback by a rule of the constitutional court which could dwindle its viability.
verbrulro͞ol 1with object Exercise ultimate power or authority over (an area and its people) 统治；管理；管辖（地方及其人民） Latin America today is ruled by elected politicians 拉丁美洲现在由当选的政治家管理。 no object the period in which Spain ruled over Portugal 西班牙统治葡萄牙的时期。 Example sentencesExamples - By the end of the eighteenth century, a Turkish tribe called the Qajars ruled the area now known as Iran.
- Having been ruled by foreign powers since the sixteenth century, Moldova declared its independence on 27 August 1991.
- So that means that for five of the last eight years, all-powerful, unelected leaders have ruled over us.
- Beginning in the 10th century, they were ruled by a line of sacred kings and queens called the Tu'i Tonga.
- This provided a defensive stronghold for the Prince Bishops of Durham, who for centuries ruled the area with their own armies, courts and coinage.
- Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, and Byzantine Greeks successively ruled the area.
- Now at the peak of his power, he ruled three quarters of the Welsh population.
- For over 650 years, a Muslim government based in Delhi ruled much of the area that makes up modern Pakistan.
- During this period, Byzantine art flourished in many areas no longer ruled by the emperor.
- The Turkish Ottoman Empire took control in 1516 and ruled the area for four hundred years.
- Ancient Egypt declined, was overrun and thereafter ruled by foreign powers.
- Other ethnic groups joined them to form the three kingdoms that ruled the area before the arrival of Europeans: the Kongo, Loango, and Teke.
- This expansion into Welsh territory led to the establishment of the March of Wales, an area previously ruled by the Welsh kings.
- But the Ruthenians of Galicia had no wish to be ruled over by Poles and drew close to the Czechs in defence of Austro-Slavism.
- For centuries, Libya was ruled by foreign powers.
- Previous governments had ended quickly and violently, the people wanted to be ruled over by a single capable man.
- The House of Saud has ruled Saudi Arabia since the country's founding in 1932.
- Many powers have ruled the land, under many different names.
- This group ruled the area during the eighth and ninth centuries.
- Although Polyneices is next in line to rule Thebes, Eteocles claims the throne for himself with the support of Creon and exiles his brother.
Synonyms govern, preside over, control, have control of, be in control of, lead, be the leader of, dominate, run, head, direct, administer, manage, regulate be in power, be in control, hold sway, be in authority, be in command, be in charge, govern, be at the helm - 1.1 (of a feeling) have a powerful and restricting influence on.
（感情）强烈影响（人的生活）；控制；支配；遏制 her whole life seemed to be ruled by fear 她的一生似乎都被恐惧所笼罩着。 Example sentencesExamples - Too often investors will let their emotions rule their investment decisions with disastrous results.
- Let's hope that Congress exercises some sensible judgement today and doesn't let emotion rule the day.
- But Amanda was tired of being ruled by her fear and guilt.
- I felt that the entire environment at the university was ruled by fear and intimidation by the faculty, and some of the professors were very unkind to people like me who were struggling to keep up.
- Embarrassment and anger ruled her actions now.
- The boy had about as much sense as his mother, letting his passions rule him instead of his head.
- With eight games remaining and only two away, the team's destiny is in their own hands but they must learn from this experience and not let complacency rule the day.
- After a brief, initial fascination, the town quickly turns against the boy, and hysteria rules the day.
- If we allow fear to rule our lives, to govern our travel plans, our ambitions and hopes, then they have won.
- Essentially, nobody knew what was going on, and emotions were ruling some heads that should have been kept cooler.
- The man was a rock, and never let his emotions rule what he said or how he acted or reacted.
- While it's true that people can be lucky and do win on hunches, too many passive players consistently let impulse rule their responses.
- The ‘obsessional’ type, ruled by the super-ego, was ruled by fear of the naggings of conscience.
- I always seemed to let my emotions rule me and I couldn't follow my heart this time, because for once I didn't know what my heart wanted.
- He knew what he was doing and he wasn't going to let anger rule him.
- She knew letting the grief rule her would get her nowhere, but she didn't care.
- There are times when you'll have every right to be angry, but you should never let that emotion rule you, or guide you.
- By using food to fix our draggy moods and low energy, we're letting our emotions rule our bodies, and we're getting fatter in the bargain.
- But one club is booming - a place where nostalgia rules and lager is the drug of choice.
- His actions had confused her entirely, and in the end, she had let fear rule her actions.
- 1.2no object Be a dominant or powerful factor.
起支配作用，占上风；居首位 with complement the black market rules supreme 黑市占了上风。 Example sentencesExamples - Fauvism was the first movement of this modern period, in which color ruled supreme.
- But if the market ruled supreme in theory during the 1980s and 1990s, reality was different.
- In this film, death rules supreme, with the plot simply tracing an endless cycle of annihilation, utterly unredeemed by any intent or outcome.
- Under prohibition, drugs are controlled by the law of the jungle in which some of the worst criminals on the face of the earth rule supreme.
- He excelled in an era when the manager ruled totally.
- The Springboks continue to rule supreme as the world's rugby champions.
- But if you visit The Venue on other than a weekend night, when music rules supreme, you will find though that there is more to this pub than just music.
- In Boston, for example, where German romanticism ruled supreme, German immigration remained at bay.
- In the days when horse power ruled supreme on farms, the powerful Shire breed was the usual one in South Westmorland and North Lancashire.
- The libidinal spirit of fun rules supreme in these small acrylic canvasses.
- League leaders Warton dropped their first points of the season thanks to rain ruling supreme on Saturday.
- A little further uptown is Lesbomonde, where the ladies rule supreme.
- In particular, the logic of the gold mines seemed to rule supreme.
- Even in India, its birthplace, where it has been ruling supreme for the last 3,000 years, it has not been able to permeate the masses.
- National Hunt racing rules supreme in this country.
- The end of the twentieth century, with the collapse of the Stalinist states, seemed to usher in an era where democracy would rule supreme.
- What does an honorable man do in times when dishonor rules supreme?
- Terror becomes total when it becomes independent of all opposition; it rules supreme when nobody any longer stands in its way.
- Dealing with gay life in Parisian society as no work before or since has ever done, A la Recherche laid bare a world in which sexual fluidity ruled supreme.
- However, in Sligo it would appear the pedestrians rule supreme.
Synonyms prevail, obtain, be the order of the day, predominate, hold sway, be supreme - 1.3informal no object Be very good or the best.
〈非正式〉极好；最好 Jackie tells me about Hanna's newest band, and says that it absolutely rules 杰基告诉我汉纳最新乐队的情况，还说这支乐队绝对是最好的。 Example sentencesExamples - This film rules! It has the coolest zombies I have ever seen!
- This band rules, but it's a good prediction that the vocalist will ruin it.
- 1.4Astrology (of a planet) have a particular influence over (a sign of the zodiac, house, etc.)
〔占星〕（行星）对（黄道十二宫图的宫，房子，生活等）有影响 the tenth House, ruled by Saturn and associated with Capricorn Example sentencesExamples - The moon rules my sign, maybe this is why I'm a night owl.
- This combination is often regarded as slightly cold and mechanical to the warmer signs of the Zodiac; those born into Sun or Moon signs ruled by fire.
- The first sign in the Zodiac, you're ruled by Mars, the action planet, and are a natural leader and innovator.
- Mars rules both Aries and Scorpio, but in Aries, its diurnal rulership, its energies are expressed more openly and directly.
- Aries and Scorpio were ruled by the same planet, which was Mars, the war-god of passion, activity, and courage.
2with clause Pronounce authoritatively and legally to be the case. 裁决，裁定 a federal court ruled that he was unfairly dismissed from his job 工业法庭裁定解雇他是不公平的。 Example sentencesExamples - Richards has since stated that he would hold his hand on appointing the tribunal until the courts ruled on the judicial review motion.
- The appeal court upheld the High Court judge's ruling that the benefits of vaccination outweighed the risks.
- By majority opinion the appeal court judges ruled that wire tapping prohibitions apply to messages in temporary storage because this stage is integral to the communications process.
- A burglar whose release from jail was delayed for 21 days after he tested positive for drugs is taking his battle to the court of appeal after a High Court judge ruled that the penalty should stand.
- However, the judge ruled that the jury should be discharged and so it was.
- The magistrates' court ruled that it had no power to determine whether Mr Ferris had been liable to pay child support maintenance.
- But he ruled that the High Court order breached the principle of the separation of powers and would unduly restrict the Government in developing child care policy.
- Lewis and Cox were both in the courtroom when the court ruled that each state district had to have roughly the same number of people.
- A state appellate court ruled that federal law pre-empted the state claims.
- In 1996, a federal district court ruled that such inequities do exist.
- On April 26, the Tokyo District Court ruled that the plaintiffs' rights of freedom of religion have not been violated by the visits.
- The trial judge ruled that contributory negligence was not a defence to the claims in negligent misrepresentation and fraud and excluded this evidence.
- After putting certain further questions to the appellant, the judge ruled that he had waived privilege.
- Contrary to submissions made by the plaintiff, I rule that the defendants are parties to the action.
- In February 2000 a High Court judge ruled that Johnson was insane and incapable of deciding to end his life.
- In a case decided in 1950 the Brussels Court Martial had already ruled that torture in time of armed conflict was prohibited by a customary international law rule.
- The plaintiff succeeded at trial, but the Court of Appeal ruled that the judge had erred in leaving the case to the jury.
- Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court ruled that federal drug laws trump policies in ten states that permit medicinal marijuana use.
- Nearly simultaneously, however, a federal district court ruled that an Ohio city could be sued for discriminatory effects.
- The court ruled that the detainees were legally analogous to German prisoners captured on the battlefield in World War II.
Synonyms decree, order, direct, pronounce, make a judgement, judge, adjudge, adjudicate, lay down, ordain 3with object Make parallel lines across (paper) 在（纸）上画平行线 rule the pages horizontally and print the information within the rules Example sentencesExamples - Robin got a map from the Land Office with a lot of lines ruled on it, from which the position of our holding could be deduced.
- A workhorse of a machine was busy feeding a swath of yellow paper from one of these rolls, mechanically ruling the paper with calibrated pins dipped in blue ink.
- Written on ruled paper, the letter was found in a pile of papers at the Greens's home in Gloucestershire.
PhrasesUsually, but not always. 通常，一般说来 Example sentencesExamples - Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a ship's company was ordered to assemble into their divisions.
- The landscapes, as a rule, were depicted as unpeopled, pristine environments.
- Most men wear pleated trousers, which as a rule, should always have cuffs.
- Generally, as a rule, it is best to take your herb tea one hour before eating, on an empty stomach.
- Ellen had always taken a direct approach with her brother, and as a rule there were no secrets between them.
- As I've said above, I've been surprised to learn how poorly paid title designers are as a rule.
- Again, Aristotle's notion of the goal of tragedy is odd: do tragedies always, or even as a rule, purge their audience of pity and fear?
- Young people, as a rule, prefer novelty to conventions, breaking fresh ground to following the beaten track.
- One member commented that, as a rule, trippers were a nuisance - they thought they could do as they pleased and go wherever they liked.
- Action thrillers contain lots of twists and turns as a rule, usually of a kind we have all seen a dozen times before.
Synonyms usually, generally, in general, normally, ordinarily, customarily, almost always, for the most part, on the whole, by and large, in the main, mainly, mostly, more often than not, commonly, typically, on average, in most cases
make it a rule to do something Have it as a habit or general principle to do something. 有做某事的习惯，有做某事的原则 I make it a rule never to mix business with pleasure 不把工作和娱乐弄混，这是我的原则。 Example sentencesExamples - Ever since then I have made it a rule to remember his words and the training goal they represent whenever I practice.
- Even though my firm is operating in an unregulated environment, I have always made it a rule to present clients with clear illustrations of the effects of charges on their proposed investment vehicles.
- I've now made it a rule to take care of at least one niggling work-related task each day.
- Coming from a big family meant she enjoyed the customers and, like Henry, made it a rule to treat everyone the same.
- Former prime ministers had made it a rule to visit the shrine during the shrine's festival in spring, or sometime in autumn, or on Aug 15.
- I make it a rule to ignore goofy self-help gurus proffering their brand of cheese or fish or whatever.
- About five days ago, Jacob made it a rule to get back into shape.
- I made it a rule to put down in writing, after every conversation, what had taken place.
- Asked if he ever stopped, he answered that he and Ljubica tried to make it a rule to do so by ten o'clock at night, having begun more than twelve hours before.
- He had never been to this place before, always made it a rule to stay away.
The restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws. 法律原则；法治 Example sentencesExamples - That decision demonstrated that this country upholds the rule of law and basic human rights.
- In the absence of the rule of law, restraint and legitimate redress for unfair practice were also absent.
- The Prime Minister overrides the rule of law and declares a coroner's enquiry unnecessary.
- The Council also affirms the need for respect for human rights and the rule of law.
- What has happened to the concept of the rule of law, due process and the presumption of innocence?
- If tribunals were to be at liberty to exceed their jurisdiction without any check by the courts, the rule of law would be at an end.
- It will entrench and help spread democracy, the rule of law and human rights.
- You can't have a notion of the rule of law and not have access to judicial review.
- Citizen investigation or citizen arrest is an important part of a society under rule of law.
- It is a fundamental requisite of the rule of law that the law should be made known.
A broadly accurate guide or principle, based on experience or practice rather than theory. 经验法则，凭经验（或实践）得来的法则 Example sentencesExamples - A widely adopted rule of thumb in crystallisation theory is that better crystals can be obtained using programmed cooling.
- Observation of individuals shows that people are much more likely to use rules of thumb when making complex decisions.
- As a rule of thumb, allow one houseplant per 100 square feet of living area.
- I want to suggest that this is in fact a rather useful rule of thumb for linguists and philologists.
- As a rough rule of thumb, the best rates are available either over the internet or from some of the aggressive building societies.
- A good rule of thumb would be to use colors based upon the type of effect you're trying to achieve.
- The general rules of thumb for a good private detective, Eddie said, are to be able to blend in, to act normally and be discreet.
- Given that forecasts were so inaccurate, I thought it might be preferable to rely on projections based on simple rules of thumb.
- This is a good rule of thumb, and the first principle we use in evaluating potential home remedies.
- The rule of thumb usually is to have three days of food and water and whatever essentials you might have.
Be in complete control. 主宰；支配；当家 Example sentencesExamples - She was employed as a cook some years ago, but now she rules the roost.
- It is the children who are ruling the roost, calling the shorts, setting conditions.
- Our democracy is crumbling with the politics of fear and prejudice ruling the roost, an electoral system which is corrupt and unrepresentative.
- Mickey is now recovering from his ordeal and is getting back to ruling the roost.
- With soap operas ruling the roost, film industry in general has slowly begun to lose its ‘sheen’ among the masses.
- Rather than a progressive process that inevitably led to Homo sapiens ruling the roost, Gee persuades the reader that evolution is based upon a random selection.
- Women don't need protection nowadays - they're the ones ruling the roost.
- With the water starting its autumnal cool down the maggot anglers are now ruling the roost as the fish move into deeper water.
- Doctors are in short supply in the interior areas, quacks are ruling the roost there.
- Before you know it we will be ruling the roost again.
Synonyms be in charge of, run, be in control of, manage, direct, administer, head, preside over, have authority over, supervise, superintend, oversee, guide, steer
Phrasal Verbsrule something out (or in) Exclude (or include) something as a possibility. 排除（不排除）…的可能性 the doctor ruled out appendicitis Example sentencesExamples - Once physical causes are ruled out, your doctor may refer you to a mental-health professional who specializes in treating anxiety disorders.
- After other possible causes of the child's symptoms are ruled out, the doctor may recommend an elimination diet to help diagnose and identify a food allergy.
- Possible sightings have been ruled out and equipment which can be used to detect if earth has been recently disturbed has found nothing.
- The strain of her illness was made almost unbearable when Kevin and Tina found out that they had been ruled out as possible donors.
- They are happy as long as I give it a try, give it my best before absolutely ruling it out as a possibility.
- At the time of writing it would be only a daylight facility, but lighting the bays, and possibly the range has not been ruled out.
- Your doctor must rule them out before being certain you have asthma.
- However, he would not rule it out as a future possibility.
- Since phlebotomy and technical errors were ruled out, the possibility existed that the mother had developed an antibody to a paternal antigen that she did not possess which was inherited by each twin.
- It is possible to develop an allergy to a product you've been using for years, so don't rule this possibility out.
- The judge said that he thought this unlikely, although he could not rule it out as a possibility.
- But the possibility that life could originate on the ocean surface has not been ruled out.
- While the priority at present is to rent the property at £l,500 per month, the possibility of a sale has not been ruled out and the price can be negotiated.
- And therefore a possibility of that exists, certainly, one wouldn't rule it out.
- It could have been that she was model, but most people ruled that possibility out.
- Something in her voice sounded as if she hadn't ruled the possibility out.
- Although the specific locus of task-set inhibition is not yet clear from the available evidence, three possibilities can be ruled out.
- There have been a number of dog thefts in recent months and while we are not linking them specifically we don't rule this possibility out.
- I don't rule the possibility out, but tend to think it is unlikely.
- Although separation would not take place at this stage, it had not been ruled out as a possibility should the twins defy the odds and survive, he added.
Synonyms exclude, eliminate, reject, dismiss, disregard
OriginMiddle English: from Old French reule (noun), reuler (verb), from late Latin regulare, from Latin regula ‘straight stick’. |