喜樂美語
  1. 1碎片；殘骸

    The broken pieces left over after something is destroyed or damaged — like pieces of a crashed car, a fallen building, or a storm-damaged roof. It's always about scattered leftover pieces, never one whole object.

From the word’s history

Borrowed from French débris, from dé- 'off' + bris 'broken'; related to burst.

借自法文 débris，由 dé-「離開」加 bris「破碎的」組成。

Wiktionary

組成From French "de-" (apart) + "briser" (to break). So literally "broken apart pieces."

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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debrisnoun/ˈdɛbɹi/

  • 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.
    • But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
  • 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, […].
  • 3

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesLarge rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

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