quarry

Word family

1 TI[countableC] a place where large amounts of stone or sand are dug out of the ground 采石场

a slate quarry

板岩采石场

2 [singular]DSO the person or animal that you are hunting or chasing 追捕的对象；猎物

Briefly, the hunter and his quarry glared at each other.

一时间，猎手和他的猎物四目相对。

Examples from the Corpus

quarry• Maggie likes to walk in the Red Deeps, a forested abandoned quarry, and Phillip Wakem encounters her there one afternoon.• The hunter closed in on his quarry.• Carrara's alps of marble could not match the limestone quarries near Wenlock Edge for sheer potential.• The alternatives were either to make a massive quarry or to mine into the fell.• It did so by contrasting the answers from two workers who were busily wielding sledgehammers in a rock quarry.• After that, I just stayed out at the quarries.• He'd spent days up on the cliff behind the quarry, watching them take off.• There was a truck parked in front of the quarry.

quarry2 verb (quarried, quarrying, quarries) [transitiveT]

to dig stone or sand from a quarry 〔在采石场〕开采〔石头〕；挖〔沙〕

quarry something for something

The rock here is quarried for building stones.

这儿的岩石被开采出来用作建筑石材。

quarry something from something

Chalk is quarried from the surrounding area.

白垩开采自周边地区。

—quarrying noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

quarry• The Romans did not quarry the most accessible stones.

From Longman Business Dictionary

quarryquar·ry /ˈkwɒriˈkwɔː-, ˈkwɑː-/ noun (plural quarries) [countableC]

a place where large amounts of stone, sand etc are dug out of the ground

a granite quarry

—quarry verb [transitiveT]

granite that is quarried in Brazil

Origin quarry1

1. (1300-1400) Old French quarriere, from an unrecorded quarre “square stone”, from Latin quadrum “square”

2. (1400-1500) Old French cuiree “inside parts of a killed animal given to the hunting dogs”, probably from Late Latin corata, from Latin cor “heart”

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quarry

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