rubble: [14] Old French robe (a relative of English rob) originally meant ‘loot, odds and ends stolen’ (its later sense ‘stolen clothes’ led on to English robe). From it was derived Anglo- Norman *robel ‘bits of broken stone’, which passed into English as rubble. The plural of *robel would have been *robeus, and this may have been the starting point for Anglo-Norman rubbous, which became English rubbish [14]. => rob, rubbish
rubble (n.)
"rough, irregular stones broken from larger masses," late 14c., robeyl, from Anglo-French *robel "bits of broken stone," probably related to rubbish [OED], but also possibly from Old French robe (see rob).
例文
1. Rescue workers are digging through the rubble in search of other victims.
救助隊は廃墟の中を掘って、他の被害者を探している。
2.The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble .
14世紀の大聖堂は瓦礫の山になった。
3.Thousands of bodies are still buried under the rubble .
何千人もの死体が砕石瓦礫の下に埋まっている。
4.All the buildings in the town have been reduced to rubble .
城内のすべての建物が廃墟となっている。
5.Brick rubble is useful as the base for paths and patios.