noun
- 无法退回的界限；界线
the point at which a decision has been taken which can no longer be changed- Today we cross the Rubicon . There is no going back.
今天我们要破釜沉舟，背水一战了。
- Today we cross the Rubicon . There is no going back.
英英释义
noun
- a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment
Synonym: point of no return
- the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul
- He's crossed the Rubicon with regard to the use of military force as an option.
他已经下定决心使用武力。 - I began to steady the palsy of my nerves and to feel that the Rubicon was crossed.
我开始镇定下来，觉得大势已定。 - Does this mean the liberty will forego its Rubicon rating and become just another crossover?
不知道这究竟意味着自由客将放弃强悍的越野能力，乖乖地变身成另一台跨界车？ - Thus, 'Caesar was born at Rome in such and such a year waged war in Gaul for ten years, crossed the Rubicon, etc.', are propositions, but not judgments.
譬如，凯撒某年生于罗马，在高卢地区进行了十年战争，渡过了鲁比康河等等只能算是命题，而非判断。 - The real Rubicon there is the self-driving car.
真正的分水岭是自动驾驶汽车。 - A group of mostly US biologists has called for a moratorium, noting that modifications to the human germ line ( changes that would be passed down generations) constituted a Rubicon not to be crossed lightly.
以美国生物学家为主的一组科学家呼吁中止研究，指出对人类生殖细胞系的修改（这种修改会代代相传）是一条不可轻率跨过的界线。 - There was a panic in the shop when a fire started. The word was carried a second time to the city: "Caesar has crossed the Rubicon," and the wild flight began.
商店里失火时一片慌乱。消息再次传到罗马：恺撒越过卢比孔河了。于是大家仓惶出逃，一片慌乱。 - He felt that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly sustained.
他觉得大势所趋，既然这审判再无法逃避，那就必须坚定地挺下去。 - The Rubicon once crossed, they set to work with a will.
事已定局，他们就起劲地干了起来。 - The rubicon separates her form death is comedy.
横在拍肩侠和死亡之间的是各色喜剧。 - He got loads of debt, he got old, he got weak, there's no turning back here, he has cross his rubicon.
他有一大堆债务，他年老体衰，这里没有回旋的余地，是他跨越了界限。 - We have crossed the rubicon, he cried as he reached the farther shore. "there is now no turning back."
“我们已经越过卢比孔河了，”他到达河的对岸时喊道，“现在只有前进，决不后退。” - The Obama administration has finally crossed the executive-pay Rubicon and declared war on Wall Street.
奥巴马政府终于在高管薪资问题上破釜沉舟，向华尔街宣战。 - Their entry into the war made them cross the Rubicon and abandon isolationism forever.
他们的参战使他们破釜沉舟永远弃绝孤立主义。 - On foot, on horseback, in litters, in carriages, they fled for their lives-all because Caesar had crossed the Rubicon.
他们或徒步，或骑马，或坐轿子，或乘马车，纷纷逃命&只因为恺撒越过了卢比孔河。