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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I suppose now that the lack of cigarettes, brought as a rule by her husband, forced him back upon her recollection, and the new feeling that the small comforts she was used to were missing gave her a sudden pang.
-- As a rule she was so calm; her agitation now was amazing.
-- As a rule he was neat in his person, but now his clothes were in disorder.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER 11Quiet and solitude were destined to hold uninterrupted rule no longer, beneath the roof that sheltered the child.
-- Oh!if those who rule the destinies of nations would but remember this if they would but think how hard it is for the very poor to have engendered in their hearts, that love of home from which all domestic virtues spring, when they live in dense and squalid masses where social decency is lost, or rather never found if they would but turn aside from the wide thoroughfares and great houses, and strive to improve the wretched dwellings in bye-ways where only Poverty may walk many low roofs would point more truly to the sky, than the loftiest steeple that now rears proudly up from the midst of guilt, and crime, and horrible disease, to mock them by its contrast.
-- There's no rule against that.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prosecutor made it a rule to view the situation from the eminence of his position, i. e., to penetrate into the profound psychological meaning of crime, and bare the ulcers of society.
-- He remembered how he once had prided himself upon his rectitude; how he always made it a rule to tell the truth, and was in reality truthful, and how he was now steeped in falsehood--falsehood which was recognized as truth by all those around him.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a Beetle sitting next to the Goat (it was a very queer carriage-full of passengers altogether), and, as the rule seemed to be that they should all speak in turn, he went on with 'She'll have to go back from here as luggage!'
-- 'The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day.'
-- Having four feet, these managed rather better than the foot-soldiers: but even they stumbled now and then; and it seemed to be a regular rule that, whenever a horse stumbled the rider fell off instantly.
-- 'I wonder, now, what the Rules of Battle are,' she said to herself, as she watched the fight, timidly peeping out from her hiding-place: 'one Rule seems to be, that if one Knight hits the other, he knocks him off his horse, and if he misses, he tumbles off himself and another Rule seems to be that they hold their clubs with their arms, as if they were Punch and Judy What a noise they make when they tumble!Just like a whole set of fire-irons falling into the fender!And how quiet the horses are!They let them get on and off them just as if they were tables!'
-- Another Rule of Battle, that Alice had not noticed, seemed to be that they always fell on their heads, and the battle ended with their both falling off in this way, side by side: when they got up again, they shook hands, and then the Red Knight mounted and galloped off.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But their rule was now divided with large troops of sea-mammals, looking at us with their soft eyes.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her clothes were always rather odd, and as a rule slip-shod, yet she wore them with a perfect ease and satisfaction.
-- It seemed almost an obscenity, in a man who talked as a rule so very seriously.
-- "Nevertheless," said Gerald, "if she is my equal, I wish she weren't a teacher, because I don't think teachers as a rule are my equal."
-- She ran in again as a rule at lunch time, to tell him the course of events, and every evening, when the curtains were drawn, and his room was cosy, she spent a long time with him.
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