The wheels only pulled sideways against the ruts. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
If anything was needed to put the last touch to her self-abasement it was the sense of the way her old life was opening its ruts again to receive her. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
But the phrase is also used to mean ruts, routine ways, with loss of freshness, open-mindedness, and originality. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.