規則在管事
掌舵的從人換成規則：法律、條款或某個事實決定了事情怎麼發生、大家能做什麼。
determine, control · verb · B2
if a rule, a law, or a fact governs something, it controls how that thing happens or what people are allowed to do.
規範；支配
核心畫面
Picture a hand on the wheel of something large: a country is being steered — its laws, its money, how it runs. Take the human hand away and leave only the rule doing the steering, and you get the second sense: the law, not a person, decides how things go.
可以想成：一隻手握著一艘大船的舵，整個國家的走向由它決定——法律、財政、怎麼運作。把那隻手拿掉，讓規則自己來掌舵，就…更多收起
可以想成：一隻手握著一艘大船的舵，整個國家的走向由它決定——法律、財政、怎麼運作。把那隻手拿掉，讓規則自己來掌舵，就得到第二個意思：決定事情怎麼走的不是某個人，而是那條規定。From the picture
Also in this word
rule a country · verb · B2
to officially control a country or a place, and make the decisions about its laws, its money, and how it is run.
統治；治理
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
governverb/ˈɡʌv.ən/
- 1
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- The old king governed the land wisely.
- 2
To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- Americans are not libertarians in the Cato Institute sense of the word, but they are folk libertarians in this sense of impulsive behaviour, which is a feature of American life that anyone who wants to govern the United States, Democratic or Republican, has to be aware of.
- 3
To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses
- 4
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- Chance governs the outcome of many card games.
- 5
To have or exercise a determining influence.
- 6
obsoleteTo handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
- 7
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- a valve that governs fuel intake
- The weight and c.g. of the aircraft were within limits at takeoff and were calculated to have remained so until the tail began to disintegrate in flight. Both engines were developing a high level of power at impact, and the APU was rotating at or near governed speed. The landing gear, flaps, and spoiler/speed brakes were retracted. There was no evidence of structural or system failures other than those directly resulting from the fire.
- 8
obsoleteTo direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteTo look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant).
- from my vncles country of Medea, Where all my youth I haue bene gouerned, […]
- 10
obsoleteTo manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device).
- 11
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsTo require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
- In Latin (Russian, German, etc.), not only verbs, but also prepositions, may govern the noun, pronoun or noun-phrase dependent upon them in a particular case: e.g. ad urbem, ‘to the city’ (ad ‘takes the accusative’: urbem) v. ab urbe, ‘from the city’ (ab ‘takes the ablative’: urbe).
governnoun/ˈɡʌv.ən/
- 1
The act of governing
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。