rule是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 统治； 支配； 裁定n. 规章， 条例； 习惯； 统治，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These, however, were only the exceptions required to prove the rule that the sparrows in the plane-tree behind the house, and the echoes in the corner before it, had their own way from Sunday morning unto Saturday night.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch's permanent summer villa was in Peterhof, and the Countess Lidia Ivanovna used as a rule to spend the summer there, close to Anna, and constantly seeing her.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch made it a rule to see his wife every day, so that the servants might have no grounds for suppositions, but avoided dining at home.
-- There were at the time as many reasons for the step as against it, and there was no overbalancing consideration to outweigh his invariable rule of abstaining when in doubt.
-- Darya Alexandrovna, who had been studying Latin with her son in Moscow before, had made it a rule on coming to the Levins' to go over with him, at least once a day, the most difficult lessons of Latin and arithmetic.
-- Levin jumped out of the wagonette, in which he had already taken his seat, to meet the carpenter, who came towards the steps with a rule in his hand.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therefore I t'ink you will either make a very good scientist or a very bad one, and if you are bad enough, you will be popular with the rich ladies who rule this city, New York, and you can gif lectures for a living or even become, if you get to be plausible enough, a college president.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She spoke as a rule little and, as we have said already, she was very submissive and timid.
-- And indeed as a rule in our Russian society the best manners are found among those who've been thrashed, have you no-ticed that?
-- Then Razumihin began to unfold his project, and he explained at length that almost all our publishers and book-sellers know nothing at all of what they are selling, and for that reason they are usually bad publishers, and that any decent publications pay as a rule and give a profit, some-times a considerable one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What evenings, when the candles came, and I was expected toemploy myself, but not daring to read an entertaining book, poredover some hard-headed harder- hearted treatise on arithmetic;when the tables of weights and measures set themselves to tunes,as Rule Britannia, or Away with Melancholy; when they wouldn'tstand still to be learnt, but would go threading my grandmother'sneedle through my unfortunate head, in at one ear and out at theother!
-- 'Put this and that together, my tender pupil,' returned the waryMowcher, touching her nose, 'work it by the rule of Secrets in alltrades, and the product will give you the desired result.
-- 440We were a little like undertakers, in the Commons, as regardedProbate transactions; generally making it a rule to look more or lesscut up, when we had to deal with clients in mourning.
-- I made it a rule to take as muchout of myself as I possibly could, in my way of doing everything towhich I applied my energies.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is such enjoyment to them, that if their uncle did not lay down the rule of their taking turns, whichever began would never give way to the other.'
-- I have no faith in Mrs. Elton's acknowledg-ing herself the inferior in thought, word, or deed; or in her being under any restraint beyond her own scanty rule of good-breeding.
-- Then she is no rule for Mrs. Churchill, who is as thorough a fine lady as any body ever beheld.'
-- and it may be a very fortunate circumstance for him, for Frank, I mean, that he should have attached himself to a girl of such steadi-ness of character and good judgment as I have always given her credit for and still am disposed to give her credit for, in spite of this one great deviation from the strict rule of right.
-- You told me to observe him carefully, and let his behaviour be the rule of mine and so I have.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Men and boys who had peeped through chinks or over walls into the barrack-yard returned with accounts of its being the most flashing affair conceivable; accoutrements and weapons glistening like stars here, there, around yet all by rule and compass.
-- Now I'll be more interesting, and let you see some loose play giving all the cuts and points, infantry and cavalry, quicker than lightning, and as promiscuously with just enough rule to regulate instinct and yet not to fetter it.
-- expostulated Coggan, "and ladies don't drive at these hours, miss, as a jineral rule of society."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No, it shouldn't," said the official from the Museum; "_frozerama_ is right by the same rule that you say 'My feet are _froze_.'"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed.
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