- 1越過盧比孔河（做了就不能收回的重大決定；也常說破釜沉舟）
When someone crosses the Rubicon, they do a thing that cannot be undone, and the future will be different because of it. The name is a real small river in northern Italy. In 49 BC, Julius Caesar marched his army across it, which Roman law forbade. That step began a civil war; there was no going back. He is said to have remarked that the die was cast. English kept the story as a picture: a Rubicon is that line you step over. You almost always meet it in the phrase 'cross the Rubicon,' not as a verb on its own. It is a serious, slightly idiom — speeches, news, and history class, not playground talk. We write it with a capital R because it is a place name.
組成From Latin Rubicō / Rubicōn, the name of the river. It may come from rubeus, 'red, reddish,' from a verb meaning 'to be red,' perhaps because mud made the water look red — but that 'perhaps' belongs to the scholars.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Rubiconname/ˈɹuːbɪkɒn/
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historicalA small river in northeastern Italy which flowed into the Adriatic Sea marking the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and the Roman heartland. Its crossing by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C.E. began a civil war.
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The same river in the present day, identified with a river previously named Fiumicino.
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A locality in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
rubiconnoun/ˈɹuːbɪkɒn/
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A limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.
- Fortunately for England ſhe is yet on the peaceable ſide of the Rubicon; but as the flames once kindled are not alway eaſily extinguiſhed, the hopes of peace are not ſo clear as before the late myſterious diſpute began.
- So when friends are lied into distrust of each other, and the rubicon has been passed, either by the death of one, or that the light of truth will not break in upon the mist resting upon the other, [...] at a day too late a discovery arises, and the perpetrators of this fruitless crime, console themselves with the saying that it was "all for the sufferer's good.["]
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card-gamesgamesEspecially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.
- The game is called a double, and you score 200 instead of 100 when your adversary does not get 100, which, in technical language, is called crossing the Rubicon.
- If you are a good way ahead, and particularly in the last hand but one, if you have a chance of winning a Rubicon, you should make a safe discard, with the view of dividing or winning the cards, in order to keep your adversary back. On the other hand, if the score is much against you, and you are under a Rubicon, you are justified in making a bold discard.
rubiconverb/ˈɹuːbɪkɒn/
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card-gamesgamesEspecially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.
- A curious score was made in a game of piquet with one of the ladies. [...] In the fifth hand she made a piquet and capot, scoring 121 to 0, and in the sixth hand, being the minor, she made a repiquet, taking all but the last trick, counting 111 to 3, totalling 270, and rubiconing her opponent at 99, with a win of 469 points.
- Fleming initiated me into the mysteries of Bézique, and at once set about rubiconing me, [...]
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