• n. 碎石，碎磚；粗石堆

詞源不詳，可能來自 rub,刮，擦，磨，引申詞義刮下來的碎石，碎磚。

rubble

rubble: [14] Old French robe (a relative of English rob) originally meant ‘loot, odds and ends stolen’ (its later sense ‘stolen clothes’ led on to English robe). From it was derived Anglo- Norman *robel ‘bits of broken stone’, which passed into English as rubble. The plural of *robel would have been *robeus, and this may have been the starting point for Anglo-Norman rubbous, which became English rubbish [14].
=> rob, rubbish

rubble (n.)

"rough, irregular stones broken from larger masses," late 14c., robeyl, from Anglo-French *robel "bits of broken stone," probably related to rubbish [OED], but also possibly from Old French robe (see rob).

1. Rescue workers are digging through the rubble in search of other victims.

救援人員正在廢墟中挖掘，以搜尋其他受害者。

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2. The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.

這座14世紀的大教堂變成了一堆瓦礫。

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3. Thousands of bodies are still buried under the rubble.

成千上萬的尸體仍然被埋在碎石瓦礫下。

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4. All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble.

城里所有的建筑都成了廢墟。

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5. Brick rubble is useful as the base for paths and patios.

碎磚石可以用來鋪路基和庭院地基。

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