rubicon

FREQ #40991

n. （意大利中部的）卢比肯河

发音

UK /ˈɹuːbɪkɒn/
AU
UK /-k(ə)n/
US /ˈɹubəˌkɑn/

词形变化

rubicons 复数 rubicons rubiconed rubiconing rubicons 三单 rubiconing 现在分词 rubiconed 过去式 rubiconed 过去分词

别名

Rubicon

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A limit that when surpassed cannot be returned from, or an action that when taken cannot be reversed.

  2. 2.

    Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.

    游戏

    1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados "You are getting rather close, Mr. Spinola—the last hand and you need twenty—one to save the rubicon." The "rubicon" means that instead of the loser's score being deducted from the winner's in arriving at the latter's total, it is added to it—a possible difference of nearly 200 points.

v.
  1. 1.

    Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat a player who has not achieved the rubicon.

    及物 游戏

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

point of no return

上位词 4

line contrast demarcation dividing line

相关短语

cross the Rubicon 破釜沉舟 crosses the Rubicon crossed the Rubicon

词源

The noun is derived from the phrase cross the Rubicon (“to make an irreversible decision or to take an action with consequences”). Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, a small river in northeastern Italy, on 10 January 49 B.C.E., indicated his intention to start a civil war with Pompey. Rubicon is derived from Latin Rubicō, Rubicōn (“the Rubicon”), possibly from rubeus (“red, reddish”), from rubeō (“to be red”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”), an allusion to the colour of the river caused by mud deposits. The verb is derived from the noun.

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