单词 | rudera |
释义 | ruderan. Now rare. With plural agreement. Fragments or ruins of a building. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > after destructive agency > decayed remnant(s) > of a building rudera1600 ruders1608 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 371 In the times of Herodotus, and Diodorus, the rudera, the ruines and desolations of Niniue stood. a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 259 By the Testimony of ancient People thereabout, who have seen the Vestigia and Rudera of the Walls. 1737 G. Smith Curious Relations I. iii. 402 None can equal the Rudera's of that once most magnificent Bridge which the Emperor Trajan caused to be built over the Danube. 1798 Brit. Critic 11 226 The author's reasons for asserting.., though it does not appear in the rudera, that chimneys were common in the Roman houses. 1846 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 16 p. lxiii He saw moreover the rudera of a mansion belonging to the King, called by Ivar Bardsen, Foss, or waterfall. 1848 Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. 2 212 Siglufirth is now Agluitsok; here the rudera of Vogar Church were discovered by the Rev. Valentine Müller, who visited this firth in the years 1832 and 1833. 1957 J. Bishop Day Christ Died (1959) 6 They were made in three layers; the bottom one was called statumen, which was crushed stone mixed with cement; the second layer was called rudera, and was composed of fine gravel, rough stone and pottery chips. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。