English Dictionary

rubble

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹʌb.əl/

名詞

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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.

日本語の意味

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

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

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。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified

意味（3）

(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc..

rubbles （ plural ）