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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his 56 Frankensteindomestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the excitement of trying on dresses she had forgotten Mammy's ironclad rule that, before going to anyparty, the O'Hara girls must be crammed so full of food at home they would be unable to eat any refreshments at theparty.
-- For, Melanie, bugles do not stir my blood nor drums entice myfeet and I see too clearly that we have been betrayed, betrayed by our arrogant Southern selves, believing that one ofus could whip a dozen Yankees, believing that King Cotton could rule the world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On his taking the recorders,--very like a little black flute that had just been played in the orchestra and handed out at the door,--he was called upon unanimously for Rule Britannia.
-- "I'll go round to the others in the course of the day and destroy the notes," said Wemmick; "it's a good rule never to leave documentary evidence if you can help it, because you don't know when it may be put in.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sempstresses took my measure as I lay on the ground, one standing at my neck, and another at my mid-leg, with a strong cord extended, that each held by the end, while a third measured the length of the cord with a rule of an inch long.
-- He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calcu-lation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- Because, in minds that have been practically formed by rule and line, from the cradle upwards, this is so curious, so incomprehensible.'
-- 'When I was irrevocably married, there rose up into rebellion against the tie, the old strife, made fiercer by all those causes of disparity which arise out of our two individual natures, and which no general laws shall ever rule or state for me, father, until they shall be able to direct the anatomist where to strike his knife into the secrets of my soul.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why should this vast underground sea be exempt from the general law, the rule of the universe?
-- My reading, which as a rule is a blessing, but which on this occasion, seemed momentarily to prove a curse, told me the real truth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had nothing to do with Sir Malcolm, who left his nervously hostile, high-spirited wife to rule her own roost, while he went his own way.
-- The logical mind pretends to rule the roost, and the roost turns into pure hate.
-- What was the point, when even the smartest aristocrats had really nothing positive of their own to hold, and their rule was really a farce, not rule at all?
-- It is sheer hypoc-risy and farce to say they can rule themselves.'
-- 'But can you rule them?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They believed that foreigners had no independent spirit, as never being escorted to the poll in droves by Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle, with colours flying and the tune of Rule Britannia playing.
-- The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She missed her moth-er's help to understand and rule herself, but having been taught where to look, she did her best to find the way and walk in it confidingly.
-- To outsiders the five energetic women seemed to rule the house, and so they did in many things, but the quiet scholar, sitting among his books, was still the head of the family, the household conscience, anchor, and comforter, for to him the busy, anxious women always turned in troublous times, finding him, in the truest sense of those sacred words, hus-band and father.
-- She knew she looked well, she loved to dance, she felt that her foot was on her native heath in a ballroom, and enjoyed the delightful sense of power which comes when young girls first discover the new and lovely kingdom they are born to rule by virtue of beauty, youth, and womanhood.
-- 'You'll go on as you begin, and Amy will rule you all the days of your life.'
-- She is the sort of woman who knows how to rule well.
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