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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Just the very ones who had the foreign prisoners in their hands, the natives under the rule of the Caciques Calfoucoura, Catriel, or Yanchetruz."
-- The more illustrious, the more illustrated, is the rule of New Zealand.
-- And yet, it is only justice to say, in spite of the general rule that, in the midst of trials, dangers, fatigues, and privations, the most amiable dispositions become ruffled and embittered, all our travelers were united, devoted, ready to die for one another.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prince found out afterwards that this gentleman made it his business to amaze people with his originality and wit, but that it did not as a rule 'come off.'
-- said he, 'picture this unhappy man, crippled by age and infirmities, who gains his living by honourable toil picture him, I repeat, robbed of his all, of his last mouthful; remember, I entreat you, the words of that learned legislator, 'Let mercy and justice alike rule the courts of law.'
-- The prince reflected a little, but very soon he replied, with absolute conviction in his tone, though he still spoke somewhat shyly and timidly: 'I only wished to say that this 'distortion,' as Evgenie Pav-lovitch expressed it, is met with very often, and is far more the general rule than the exception, unfortunately for Rus-sia.
-- Now without some such rule and order, any-one might be shouted down, even in the loftiest and most profound thought芒聙娄.'
-- It seems to me that painters as a rule represent the Saviour, both on the cross and taken down from it, with great beauty still upon His face.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Jove,' he cried, 'grant that this my child may be even as myself, chief among the Trojans; let him be not less excellent in strength, and let him rule Ilius with his might.
-- Drive straight towards Patroclus, if so be that Apollo may grant you a triumph over him, and you may rule him.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Them as stops in this house comes in by the doors that's the rule of the house, and that you didn't do, and what I want to know is how you did come in.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said a sea lion gruffly, for as a rule the sea lions keep themselves to themselves.
-- Her Majesty's Servants You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three, But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It falls by no rule at all; sometimes it leaps, sometimes it tumbles; there it skips; here it shoots; in one place 'tis white as snow, and in another 'tis green as grass; hereabouts, it pitches into deep hollows, that rumble and crush the 'arth; and thereaways, it ripples and sings like a brook, fashioning whirlpools and gullies in the old stone, as if 'twas no harder than trodden clay.
-- The ar-rangement was understood to be merely temporary, and was made as much with a view to flatter his neighbors as in obedience to the invariable rule of Indian policy.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do so now, touching the Black Fish, so-called, because blackness is the rule among almost all whales.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That's the rule now, Mrs. Corney, all over the country.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It is a rule with me, that a person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.' 'That will not do for a compliment to Darcy, Caroline,' cried her brother, 'because he does NOT write with ease.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon these and many like reflections I afterwards made it a certain rule with me, that whenever I found those secret hints or press-ings of mind to doing or not doing anything that presented, or going this way or that way, I never failed to obey the se-cret dictate; though I knew no other reason for it than such a pressure or such a hint hung upon my mind.
-- As the bear is a heavy, clumsy creature, and does not gallop as the wolf does, who is swift and light, so he has two par-ticular qualities, which generally are the rule of his actions; first, as to men, who are not his proper prey (he does not usually attempt them, except they first attack him, unless he be excessively hungry, which it is probable might now be the case, the ground being covered with snow), if you do not meddle with him, he will not meddle with you; but then you must take care to be very civil to him, and give him the road, for he is a very nice gentleman; he will not go a step out of his way for a prince; nay, if you are really afraid, your best way is to look another way and keep going on; for sometimes if you stop, and stand still, and look stead-fastly at him, he takes it for an affront; but if you throw or toss anything at him, though it were but a bit of stick as big as your finger, he thinks himself abused, and sets all other business aside to pursue his revenge, and will have satisfac-tion in point of honour - that is his first quality: the next is, if he be once affronted, he will never leave you, night or day, till he has his revenge, but follows at a good round rate till he overtakes you.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I can't do it," the manager was saying; "it's a rule of Mr. Frohman's never to allow visitors back of the stage.
-- If he hadn't made it a rule to have nothing to do with the members of the chorus, he would have approached her most unbendingly.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They talked it over, and they was going to rule me out, because they said every boy must have a family or some-body to kill, or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a rule they are either fools or swindlers!
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