rubble
英 ['rʌb(ə)l]
美 ['rʌbl]
助記提示
1. rub => rubble: 磨碎了的石塊兒。
2. rubbish <=====> rubble.
3. rob literally "break" => “plunder, destroy, steal” ===> rubbish <=====> rubble “bits of broken stone”.
4. rip, abrupt, rupture => rup-, rump-, rupt- "break" => rob literally "break" => “plunder, destroy, steal” <=== 就是“破門而入”的那種盜竊、搶劫。
5. ru- (諧音“路”) + pebble => rubble: 鋪路用的石-----碎石。
6. 諧音“路壩、路吧”-----鋪路壩用的碎石。
7. 諧音“路簸”----路上很顛簸，因為鋪的是碎石路。
中文詞源
rubble 碎石，碎磚詞源不詳，可能來自 rub,刮，擦，磨，引申詞義刮下來的碎石，碎磚。
英文詞源
- 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).
雙語例句
- 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。
來自柯林斯例句
- 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。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Thousands of bodies are still buried under the rubble.
- 成千上萬的屍體仍然被埋在碎石瓦礫下。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble.
- 城裏所有的建築都成了廢墟。
來自柯林斯例句
- 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。
來自柯林斯例句