run the rule over

短语

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词形变化

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To examine carefully and thoroughly.

    习语 及物

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados The doctor found his patient propped up on a doorstep. Having, as he expressed it afterwards, "run the rule over him," he prescribed a glass of water and an hour's rest. The man was shaken, that was all.