English Dictionary

debris

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɛbɹi/

名詞

不可算名詞

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.

日本語の意味

瓦礫、残骸（破壊され散らばったものの破片） / 散乱した廃材、不要になった廃棄物 / 崩壊した建造物の廃墟、倒壊の跡 / （地質学）溶解した氷河によって残された大きな岩片など

After the storm passed, volunteers spent the afternoon clearing debris from the flooded streets.

嵐が過ぎ去った後、ボランティアたちは浸水した通りからがれきを片付けるのに午後を費やした。

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.