You can picture a straight measuring stick laid down as the standard everything is checked against. The oldest meaning of the word is literally that stick (a ruler), and from 'the straight line you measure by' grow two big ideas: a stated standard you must keep to (a rule), and the power to keep people in line (to rule). Whether it's a line on paper, a law in a game, or a king over a country, it is all 'holding things to the straight standard.'
From the word’s history
From Latin 'regula', a straight stick or ruler, from 'regere' to guide straight, to rule; so 'measuring stick' and 'govern' are two branches of one image — keeping things straight.
源自拉丁文 regula，意思是「直棍、直尺」，再往上接 regere「引導擺直、治理」。所以「量尺」和「統治」其實是同一個畫面的兩個分枝——都是把東西扶直、保持筆直。
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原始詞典資料20 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Rulename
- 1
A surname.
- 2
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States.
- 3
A town in Haskell County, Texas, United States.
rulenoun詞源 1/ɹuːl/
- 1
A regulation, law, guideline.
- All participants must adhere to the rules.
- You have to follow the rules to enter the qualifiers for the football tournament.
- 2
A regulating principle.
- There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.
- 3
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
- Obey them that have the rule over you.
- His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.
- 4
A normal condition or state of affairs.
- My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
- As a rule, our senior editors are serious-minded.
- 5
obsoleteConduct; behaviour.
- This uncivil rule; she shall know of it.
- 6
lawAn order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
- 7
mathematicssciencesA determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
- a rule for extracting the cube root
- 8
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
- As we may observe in the Works of Art, a Judicious Artist will indeed use his Eye, but he will trust only to his Rule.
- It is not right to pervert the judge by moving him to anger or envy or pity—one might as well warp a carpenter's rule before using it.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
- 10
datedmediaprintingpublishingA thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
ruleverb詞源 2/ɹuːl/
- 1
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
- (in dating)
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
- 2
slangTo excel.
- This game rules!
- 3
To decide judicially.
- The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
- 4
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
- That's a ruled case with the school-men.
- 5
To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
rulenoun詞源 3/ɹuːl/
- 1
obsoleteRevelry.
ruleverb詞源 3/ɹuːl/
- 1
obsoleteTo revel.
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