quarry
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英['kwɒrɪ]
|美['kwɔri]
n.采石场;猎物;正方形,菱形;来源
vt.挖出;努力挖掘
vi.费力地找
日语:採石場
法语:carrière
德语:Steinbruch
韩语:채석장
俄语:cantera
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
- 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。
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。
网络解释
n. 采石场;猎物;来源
vi. 费力地找
vt. 挖出;努力挖掘
n. (Quarry)人名;(英)夸里
同、反义词
同义词:
n.
diggings,excavation,game,mine,pit
v.
cut,dig out,dig up,excavate,extract
词形变化
名词复数形式:quarries 现在分词:quarrying 过去分词:quarried 过去式:quarried 第三人称单数:quarries
中文词源
quarry 采石场quarry 猎物
来自拉丁语quadrare,给石头打磨,使成(四)方形,词源同four,square,quarter.引申词义石头打磨声,采石场。来自古法语coree,内脏,肠,来自拉丁语cor,心,心脏,词源同heart,cordial.原指给猎鹰猎捕 到猎物后的奖赏,后引申词义猎物。
双语例句
- Quarry tiles are a popular kitchen flooring.
缸砖是一种流行的厨房地面材料。
- 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。
- The dogs soon flushed the quarry.
不久,狗惊起猎物。
- 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。
- One summer I had my pony at Fern Quarry.
那年夏天,我把我的小马驹也带到了弗恩采石场。
- 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。
- 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。
- The trucks were taking slate from the quarry.
卡车从采石场运送板岩。
- Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk.
采石场的花岗岩与剃须刀,或停泊船只的丝线。
- We should quarry fresh marble, don't you think?
我们该用新的大理石,您觉得呢?
- Something that is hunted or pursued; quarry.
猎物被捕猎或被追赶的东西;猎物。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- 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。
- Objective Research element composition of producing power in foundry work and quarry work.
调查研究某铸造作业和采石作业生产性粉尘成分的元素含量。
- Tabor re-appears in history no more as a stone quarry but as a pagan sanctuary.
大博尔再度出现在历史中已不再是一个石矿场,而是一个非基督徒的避难所。
- Their quarry were rhinoceros, elephant, and leopard.
他们的猎物有犀牛、大象和豹子。
- A British term for` quarry 'is` stone pit'.
英国对'采石场'的术语是'采石场'。
- A mine or quarry that is being or has been worked.
正在工作或已经工作的矿山或采石场。
- 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。
- 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。
- A quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone.
一个开劈石头的采石工。
- She worked at a rock quarry.
她在一家采石场工作。
- 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。
- Thousands of men and women are working in the quarry to get stones for use in building the castle.
数以千计的男了和女人们在采石场掘取筑城堡用的石头。
- The extraction of building stone or slate from an open surface quarry.
从一个表面粗糙的采石场提取建筑用的石头或石板。
- Wolves often pursue their quarry for up to three miles before attacking them.
狼追踪猎物经常要追上3英里路,然后才攻击它们。
- 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。
- The horseman aimed his lance at his quarry.
骑手把长矛对准了他的猎物。
语源
Middle English: from a variant of medieval Latin quareria, from Old French quarriere, based on Latin quadruma square. The verb dates from the late 18th centMiddle English: from Old French cuiree, alteration, influenced by cuirleather and curerclean, disembowel, of couree, based on Latin corheart. Originally the term denoted the parts of a deer that were placed on the hide and given as a reward to the houndsmid 16th cent. (in sense 2): alteration of quarrel, which in late Middle English denoted a lattice windowpane