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The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. / (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

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rubble

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈɹʌb.əl/

Noun

countable uncountable UK dialectal in-plural

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry. / (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

Japanese Meaning

がれき、瓦礫 - 壊れて散らばった岩石や石組みの残骸を指す（例：建物の崩壊による破片） / 地質学的意味では、周辺の岩石から破砕・侵食されて形成された岩屑の集合体を指す

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After the earthquake, the children played among the rubble of the old school, pretending it was a pirate's island.

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地震の後、子どもたちは古い学校の瓦礫の中で遊び、そこを海賊の島だと想像していた。

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The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them.

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