English Dictionary

debris

/ˈdɛbɹi/

noun

Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. / Litter and discarded refuse. / The ruins of a broken-down structure. / (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

The earthquake left a trail of debris in its wake.

意味（1）

Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding.

意味（2）

Litter and discarded refuse.

[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].

意味（3）

The ruins of a broken-down structure.

意味（4）

(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.