small, smooth stone, late 13c., from Old English papolstan "pebblestone," of unknown origin. Perhaps imitative. Some sources compare Latin papula "pustule, pimple, swelling."
例文
1. You throw a pebble in a pool and it ripples.
池に玉石を投げると波紋が広がる。
2.The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.
この鳥は卵を卵と間違え、孵化しようとした。
3.You aren 't the only pebble on the beach.
あなたのような人はとても多いです。
4.He fitted a pebble into the catapult and puled back the elastic.Twang!
彼はパチンコに石を入れ、輪ゴムを引き戻した。「嘣」!
5.He glared at Nikitin but the General Secretary stared him out with hard, pebble -like eyes.