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词典释义:
quarry
时间: 2023-09-20 18:48:03
高中雅思托福GRE
英 [ˈkwɒri]
美 [ˈkwɑːri]

n. 采石场;露天矿场;猎物;方形玻璃;菱形玻璃;缸砖;大铺地砖;被追逐的目标;被追捕的人

v. 采掘;开凿…采石;挖掘(地面)采矿

短语搭配
双语例句
  • The owner of this quarry absconded with the money.

    这个采石场的老板携款潜逃了。

  • We are quarrying limestone on a remote mountain.

    我们在一座偏僻的山上采石灰石。

  • The hunter got his quarry.

    猎人得到了他的猎物。

  • There was a truck parked in front of the quarry.

    采石场前停着一辆卡车

  • The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest.

    猎人在森林里跟丢了猎物。

  • We ended up in an abandoned quarry.

    我们最后到了一个废弃的采石场。

  • I went to the quarry.

    我去了采石场。

  • At a distance, there is already a modern quarry.

    不远处,已经有了一座现代采石场。

  • We have our own quarries: Oriental Cherry Red Quarry and Yellow Rust Granite Quarry.

    我们有自己的采石场:樱花红采石场和黄锈花岗岩采石场。

近义词
同根词

词根 quarry

  • quarrier n. 凿石匠;采石工人

  • quarrying n. 采石 vt. 采石(quarry的现在分词)

  • quarryman n. 凿石匠;采石工

百科

矿床的开采可能是地下作业或露天作业。没有天然照明而在地下进行的工作,叫做地下作业,采石场也就称为地下采石场。在天然光下进行开采的采石场,则称为露天采石场。

释义
n.

a place, typically a large, deep pit, from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted

采石场;露天矿场。

v.

extract (stone or other materials) from a quarry

采掘(石料或其他材料)。

cut into (rock or ground) to obtain stone or other materials

开凿(岩石)采石;挖掘(地面)采矿。

n.

an animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey

猎物。

a thing or person that is chased or sought

被追逐的目标;被追捕的人

  • the security police crossed the border in pursuit of their quarry.

    秘密警察跨越国界追捕目标。

n.

a diamond-shaped pane of glass as used in lattice windows

(格窗上用的)方形玻璃,菱形玻璃。

(亦作quarry tile)an unglazed floor tile

缸砖,大铺地砖。

词源

"Middle English: from a variant of medieval Latin quareria, from Old French quarriere, based on Latin quadrum ‘a square'. The verb dates from the late 18th cent.Middle English: from Old French cuiree, alteration, influenced by cuir ‘leather' and curer ‘clean, disembowel', of couree, based on Latin cor ‘heart'. Originally the term denoted the parts of a deer that were placed on the hide and given as a reward to the hounds.mid 16th cent. (in sense 2): alteration of QUARREL2, which in late Middle English denoted a lattice windowpane."

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