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单词 rubble-filled
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rubble-filled
C2. Instrumental, as rubble-covered, rubble-filled, rubble-strewn, etc.
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1870 Ohio Farmer 20 Aug. 531/1 The sower was asked what he expected to reap from that piece of rubble-strewn land.
1888 Trans. Royal Geol. Soc. Cornwall 26 Oct. 172 These beds of sandstone..share with the hills the remarkable brightness of colour which is so characteristic on the rubble-covered sides.
1903 G. V. Poore Colonial & Camp Sanitation ii. 24 There being..no indication of the rubble-filled trench beneath.
1944 Manch. Guardian 27 June 3/2 The rubble-strewn trail of modern warfare looks much the same whether the buildings and homes laid waste are in France, Italy, or Russia.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 17 Dec. 14/2 Sunken and rubble-littered uneven pavements, pitfalled with miniature craters.
1992 W. McGowan Only Man is Vile (1993) iv. 75 The area bore signs of fierce fighting, with its shattered houses and rubble-strewn streets.
2004 Smithsonian Oct. 27/1 ‘We're looking for builders' trenches’, Bates said, meaning the rubble-filled ditches that 18th- and 19th-century builders employed to support foundations.
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