GRE核心词汇词组：rule out

　　rule out 排除可能性

　　释义

　　If you rule out a course of action, an idea, or a solution, you decide that it is impossible or unsuitable.

　　例句

　　The integrated scientific system of Newton does not rule out the existence of God.

　　GRE

　　They ruled out local bias because breakage data obtained from other Pleistocene sites were similar to the La Brea data.

　　他们排除了地域导致的偏差，因为来自其他更新世遗址样品的损毁情况和La Brea的相似。