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
Collins.1 / BNC.4807 / COCA.9794
牛津词典
noun
- 采石场
a place where large amounts of stone, etc. are dug out of the ground- a slate quarry
板岩采石厂 - the site of a disused quarry
废弃的采石场
- a slate quarry
- 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- The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest.
猎人在森林里跟丢了猎物。 - The photographers pursued their quarry through the streets.
摄影师满街捕捉拍摄对象。
- The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest.
verb
- 从(采石场)采(石等)
to take stone, etc. out of a quarry- The local rock is quarried from the hillside.
当地的石头都是从那片山坡开采的。 - The area is being quarried for limestone.
这地方正在开采石灰石。
- The local rock is quarried from the hillside.
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.- ...an old limestone quarry.
废旧的石灰岩采石场
- ...an old limestone quarry.
- 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.- 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。 - ...locally quarried stone.
当地采掘的石头
- The large limestone caves are also quarried for cement.
- 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
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- he fell prey to muggers
- everyone was fair game
- the target of a manhunt
verb
- extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
- quarry marble
双语例句
- 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。 - This skull of a small female was uncovered in a quarry ( 6) southwest of Cairo in 2004.
这个小的女性头骨在2004年被发掘于开罗西南部一个采石场中。 - Art Design Group in the construction of a quarry here, a huge slope and Pharaoh's palace.
艺术设计小组在这里建造了一个采石场,一个巨大的斜坡和法老的宫殿。 - The trucks were taking slate from the quarry.
卡车从采石场运送板岩。 - It take the police several day to track down their quarry.
警方用了几天时间追查到案中目标。 - The true dips are commonly observed in quarry faces, cuttings and cliffs etc.
在采场面,断面和断崖等面上人们常看到真倾角。 - 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。 - It has season to quarry the jade, it is mainly autumn and spring.
采玉是有季节的,主要是秋季和春季。 - We had one warder at the quarry who seemed particularly hostile to us.
在矿场有一名狱吏好好像对我们特别有敌意。 - 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。