quarry

英 [ˈkwɒri]

美 [ˈkwɑːri]

n.  采石场; 被追猎的动物(或人); 追捕的对象; 猎物
v.  从(采石场)采(石等)

复数：quarries　现在分词：quarrying　过去分词：quarried　过去式：quarried　第三人称单数：quarries　

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牛津词典

noun

• 采石场
  a place where large amounts of stone, etc. are dug out of the ground
  1. a slate quarry
     板岩采石厂
  2. the site of a disused quarry
     废弃的采石场
• 被追猎的动物（或人）；追捕的对象；猎物
  an animal or a person that is being hunted or followed
  1. The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest.
     猎人在森林里跟丢了猎物。
  2. The photographers pursued their quarry through the streets.
     摄影师满街捕捉拍摄对象。

verb

• 从（采石场）采（石等）
  to take stone, etc. out of a quarry
  1. The local rock is quarried from the hillside.
     当地的石头都是从那片山坡开采的。
  2. The area is being quarried for limestone.
     这地方正在开采石灰石。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 采石场;露天矿场
  Aquarryis an area that is dug out from a piece of land or the side of a mountain in order to get stone or minerals.
  1. ...an old limestone quarry.
     废旧的石灰岩采石场
• VERB 开采(石料或矿产);在…开采
  When stone or mineralsare quarriedor when an areais quarriedfor them, they are removed from the area by digging, drilling, or using explosives.
  1. The large limestone caves are also quarried for cement.
     同时还在这些大石灰岩洞里开采水泥原料。
  2. ...locally quarried stone.
     当地采掘的石头
• 追捕的对象；猎物
  A person's or animal'squarryis the person or animal that they are hunting.

英英释义

noun

• animal hunted or caught for food
  Synonym:prey
• a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
  1. a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
  Synonym:pitstone pit
• a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
  1. he fell prey to muggers
  2. everyone was fair game
  3. the target of a manhunt
  Synonym:preytargetfair game

verb

• extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
  1. quarry marble

双语例句

• We should quarry fresh marble, don't you think?
  我们该用新的大理石，您觉得呢？
• And now he possessed her utterly, primitively-as a hunter does his quarry, a tiger his kill.
  他们是原始的猎人与猎物的关系，虎与伥的关系，最终极的占有。她这才生是他的人，死是他的鬼。
• A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
  一个开劈石头的采石工。
• It was called Fern Quarry, because near it there was a limestone quarry, long since abandoned.
  人们把那里叫做弗恩采石场，因为在那附近有一个石灰石矿场，不过很久以前就废弃了。
• Something that is hunted or pursued; quarry.
  猎物被捕猎或被追赶的东西；猎物。
• With no quarry to be found in the demilitarised zone, North spotted a dozing enemy across the border.
  他在非军事区找不到猎物，只见对方边界内有个敌兵打瞌睡。
• The trucks were taking slate from the quarry.
  卡车从采石场运送板岩。
• The dogs soon flushed the quarry.
  不久，狗惊起猎物。
• A team of scientists came to this controversial conclusion by dating human footprints preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned quarry in Mexico.
  对保存在火山灰中的人类足迹进行年代测定后，一个科学家小组得出了这一具有争议性的结论。这些火山灰是在墨西哥一个废弃的采石场被发现的。
• Pass through an old limestone quarry and proceed until the end of the road.
  穿过旧石灰石采矿场，一直开到路的尽头。