debris

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɛbɹi/|/ˈdeɪbɹi/    美 /dəˈbɹiː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed. uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Litter and discarded refuse. uncountable
    — [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. Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc. uncountable

词形变化

débris alternative,archaic

词汇关系

近义词
debris detritus remains ruins rubbish rubble wreckage
上位词
piece remainder
衍生词
biodebris cellular debris debris basin debris field debris mortar debris response area debrite palynodebris space debris
相关词
broken trash

词源

Borrowed from French débris, itself from dé- (“de-”) + bris (“broken, crumbled”), or from Middle French debriser (“to break apart”), from Old French debrisier, itself from de- + brisier (“to break apart, shatter, bust”), from Frankish *bristijan, *bristan, *brestan (“to break violently, shatter, bust”), from Proto-Germanic *brestaną (“to break, burst”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrest- (“to separate, burst”). Cognate with Old High German bristan (“to break asunder, burst”), Old English berstan (“to break, shatter, burst”), German bersten (“to burst”). More at burst.
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