1、The teacher often beat him with a ferule when he was young.
小時候他沒少被老師用戒尺打。

2、The ferule is used for conversion, tonsure, ordination and parlance.
戒尺用于皈依、剃度、傳戒、說法等場合。

3、His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now--at least among the smaller pupils.
他的棍棒和戒尺現(xiàn)在很少閑置了——至少在年齡較小的學生中是這樣。

4、No mere ferule will answer for this offence.
這種冒失不能僅僅用戒尺來處理。

ferule翻譯

n. 戒尺, 管教, (學校的)紀律vt. 用戒尺責打 詳情