Rule

(noun.) measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths.

(noun.) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; 'it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast'; 'short haircuts were the regulation'.

(noun.) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; 'he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs'; 'he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials'.

(noun.) any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order; 'the rule of St. Dominic'.

(noun.) prescribed guide for conduct or action.

(noun.) directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted; 'he knew the rules of chess'.

(noun.) (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice.

(noun.) the duration of a monarch's or government's power; 'during the rule of Elizabeth'.

(verb.) keep in check; 'rule one's temper'.

(verb.) decide with authority; 'The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed'.

(verb.) decide on and make a declaration about; 'find someone guilty'.

(verb.) mark or draw with a ruler; 'rule the margins'.

(verb.) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac.

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• You'll go on as you begin, and Amy will rule you all the days of your life. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I don't think you need be afraid of that, replied Helena, with great scorn; Andros is not likely to rule Melnos. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Under his rule were carried out the dragonnades, a peculiarly malignant and effectual form of persecution. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The first principle which runs through all art and nature is simplicity; this also is to be the rule of human life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The motley of people under his rule knew little of him and cared less. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• So, by the same rule, if a woman's a party to a secret that might hang or transport her, I'm not afraid of her telling it to anybody; not I! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Your god rules at the bridal of kings; look at your royal dynasties! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Thus our general rules are in a manner set in opposition to each other. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Against the rules,' said Mr. Tuckle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army; but he does not rank with him in the common estimation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Property must be stable, and must be fixed by general rules. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The philosopher himself has lost the love of truth, and the soldier, who is of a simpler and honester nature, rules in his stead. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is not prose but poetry, at least a great part of it, and ought not to be judged by the rules of logic or the probabilities of history. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• After his downfall, the Republic still ruled unassailable. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And he did not believe in the extreme discretion that then ruled Roman strategy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If right principles ruled through the kingdom, there would be no necessity for me to change its state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The populations over which Charles Martel and King Pepin ruled were at very different levels of civilization in different districts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Yes, there's some house or other that might have had a man for a master--such as he is--that's now ruled by a woman alone. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• We are ruled by custom upon Barsoom. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Let us see, said Caleb, taking up a pen, examining it carefully and handing it, well dipped, to Fred with a sheet of ruled paper. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• You have to imagine, then, that there are two ruling powers, and that one of them is set over the intellectual world, the other over the visible. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Brahminism had long since ousted Buddhism from India, but the converts to Islam were still but a small ruling minority in the land. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now that was tact, for two of the ruling foibles of the masculine mind were touched. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And if this small ruling class have wisdom, then the whole State will be wise. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In that year Cyrus was ruling over an empire that reached from the boundaries of Lydia to Persia and perhaps to India. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the ruling class do not want remedies; they care only for money, and are as careless of virtue as the poorest of the citizens. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His ruling thought, his great contribution to political literature, was that the moral obligations upon ordinary men cannot bind princes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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