In Dujiangyan, a large mechanical digger scoops slabs of concrete and twisted metal rods from a massive pile of rubble.

在都江堰，一台大型挖掘机从一大堆碎石中铲出混凝土板和扭曲的金属杆。

Within days, even before I knew about the multistory glass office building destined to occupy that block, my find had been reduced to a pile of rubble.

短短数日里，甚至在我尚未知道这条街区注定要被一座满是玻璃的办公楼占据的时候，我再经过时所能发现的只是一堆瓦砾。

The main building of the Beichuan Middle School, a seven-story structure, had been reduced to a pile of rubble about 2 meters high.

原本七层的北川中学主教学楼，已经成为了仅高两米的废墟堆。

The last time I saw that castle it was a pile of rubble; now the marquis himself would no doubt approve.

我最后一次见到那座城堡时，它就是一堆瓦砾，而城堡现在的样子，假如侯爵见到，也一定赞叹不已。

TRAPPED under a pile of rubble, you wait for rescue. Then, to add to your troubles, you see a small blob ooze through a nearby crack.

你正困在一堆瓦砾下等待营救，这时雪上加霜，一小团泥巴状的东西从旁边的裂缝中慢慢流出来。

Yesterday his house was a pile of rubble: collapsed walls and the occasional piece of furniture exposed to the sky.

昨天，他的房子已成为一堆废墟：墙壁倒塌，偶尔露出几块家具碎片。

We quickly found the huge pile of rubble where two hotels once stood, and set up for live television shots.

我们很快发现原来两个宾馆所在地已是废墟一片，然后为电视直播搭建设备。

We were on the ground floor and when I came to I was lying under a pile of rubble.

我们当时都在第一层，我发现我躺在一堆碎石块下。

The 2, 000-year-old building lies along Via dell’Abbondanza, some 65 feet from the ruins of the frescoed House of Gladiators, which crumbled into a pile of rubble earlier this month.

2000年历史的建筑顺着阿波坦查大道延伸，角斗士壁画楼遗址约65英尺，本月初碎成一堆瓦砾。

What was once a palace is now a pile of rubble.

那曾一度是宫殿的地方，现在却变成了一片瓦砾。

We stepped out of the thick woods onto a giant swath of rubble, a big elongated pile of rocks on the top of this ridge.

我们走出密林，来到巨大而细长的碎石带，这座山脊的顶端居然是连绵的岩石堆。

Is it, for instance, mostly rock and ice with a few pockets of gas, or is it a loose pile of rubble held together by gravity?

例如，是由大量的石头、冰川和少量的气体构成还是由在重力作用下聚在一起的松散的碎石堆构成。

The camera gets buried under a pile of rubble after the first explosion.

在第一次爆炸之后摄像机被埋在了一堆瓦砾之下。

Sometimes she would try to cheer her father by pointing to the pile of rubble next door, all that was left of their neighbors' bombed house.

有时她指着邻居家房子的废墟里的碎石堆，哄祖父开心。

Finally, dressed in dark clothes and offering bouquets of lilies, they record the process of demolition until all that is left is a pile of rubble.

最后，他们身穿黑色外衣，置身在百合花丛中，拍摄了院落拆除的过程，以及最后所剩下的唯一的一堆瓦砾。

My first image, when I turned the corner into the town, was just a pile of twisted rubble and concrete.

当我进入北川的时候，看到的第一个景象是一堆扭曲的碎石和水泥。

Instead, the residents failed to comply fully with the law; and by 1699 Jamestown had collapsed into a pile of rubble with only three or four habitable houses.

不过，当地居民没有完全按照法案来做，到1699年的时候，这个城镇就颓落成了一堆碎石，能住人的房子只剩下三四座了。

A fierce explosion turned the building into a pile of rubble.

一场大爆炸使这幢大楼成了一堆瓦砾。

The rocky body-the largest yet to get a close flyby-seems to have been just large enough to avoid being reduced to a flying pile of rubble by eons of collisions with other asteroids.

这颗岩石星体是飞船将要靠近的最大的小行星，该小行星的块头好像刚好够大，不至于在多个时代以来由于跟其他小行星碰撞而沦落为一堆飞行的碎石块。

A restaurant frequented by young college students is now a pile of rubble.

年轻大学生经常光顾的一个餐馆现在变成了一堆废墟。

In a matter of minutes, an October earthquake measuring 7.3 turned the city of Ashgabat into a pile of rubble.

几分钟的事，10月份的一场7.3级地震将阿什哈巴德市变为一堆瓦砾。

Their old school is a pile of rubble.

他们的旧校园就是一堆碎石。

I got a call from Will. "Well, I've been checking my materials, and I'm pretty sure that pile of rubble was Northern Qi Dynasty, dating from 550 AD."

Will给过我电话，他说：“我查阅了资料，现在十分肯定那堆碎石是北齐时代留下来的，大约是公元550年。”