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quarry n.采石场；猎获物；来源；被追逐的目标v.挖出；苦心找出 (1) 这座山曾经有一个采石场。(2) 骑手把长矛对准了他的猎物。(3) 每一句话似乎都给人以许多冥思默想。(4) 警方用了几天时间追查到案中目标。(5) 侦探们监测那个目标已有好几个星期了。(6) 我们看到劳工们挖出一大块大理石。(7) 他们正在旧手稿中寻找资料。 Gross fact: Quarry derives from the Latin cor "heart," because hunters used to drape the entrails of their chosen quarry on their dogs' backs. The origin in a word for "heart" can help you remember both quarries: a rock quarry is searching down toward the heart of the earth; a stag's heart is considered a hunter's greatest prize.

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英 ['kwɒri] 美 ['kwɔːri] (1) This mountain was the site for a quarry.(2) The horseman aimed his lance at his quarry.(3) Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations.(4) It took the police several days to track down their quarry.(5) Detectives kept the quarry under surveillance for weeks.(6) We watched the workmen quarry out a huge block of marble .(7) They are quarrying in old manuscripts. Both meanings of quarry have to do with going after something. An animal being hunted is called quarry, and when you dig a hole in the earth looking for rocks, both the digging and the hole are called quarry as well. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]采石场；露天矿场 A quarry is 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2[VERB 动词]开采(石料或矿产)；在…开采 When stone or minerals are quarried or when an area is quarried for them, they are removed from the area by digging, drilling, or using explosives.   [be V-ed]  [V-ed]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quarryingFarming, quarrying and other local industries have declined.农业、采矿业以及其他地方工业都已陷入衰退。3[N-SING 单数名词]追捕的对象；猎物 A person's or animal's quarry is the person or animal that they are hunting.

英语单词	quarry
英美音标	英 ['kwɒri] 美 ['kwɔːri]
中文释义	n.采石场；猎获物；来源；被追逐的目标 v.挖出；苦心找出
英语例句	(1) This mountain was the site for a quarry. (2) The horseman aimed his lance at his quarry. (3) Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations. (4) It took the police several days to track down their quarry. (5) Detectives kept the quarry under surveillance for weeks. (6) We watched the workmen quarry out a huge block of marble . (7) They are quarrying in old manuscripts.
中文例句	(1) 这座山曾经有一个采石场。 (2) 骑手把长矛对准了他的猎物。 (3) 每一句话似乎都给人以许多冥思默想。 (4) 警方用了几天时间追查到案中目标。 (5) 侦探们监测那个目标已有好几个星期了。 (6) 我们看到劳工们挖出一大块大理石。 (7) 他们正在旧手稿中寻找资料。
vocabulary简明	Both meanings of quarry have to do with going after something. An animal being hunted is called quarry, and when you dig a hole in the earth looking for rocks, both the digging and the hole are called quarry as well.
vocabulary扩展	Gross fact: Quarry derives from the Latin cor "heart," because hunters used to drape the entrails of their chosen quarry on their dogs' backs. The origin in a word for "heart" can help you remember both quarries: a rock quarry is searching down toward the heart of the earth; a stag's heart is considered a hunter's greatest prize.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]采石场；露天矿场 A quarry is 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 2 [VERB 动词]开采(石料或矿产)；在…开采 When stone or minerals are quarried or when an area is quarried for them, they are removed from the area by digging, drilling, or using explosives. [be V-ed] [V-ed] 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 quarrying Farming, quarrying and other local industries have declined. 农业、采矿业以及其他地方工业都已陷入衰退。 3 [N-SING 单数名词]追捕的对象；猎物 A person's or animal's quarry is the person or animal that they are hunting.

Quarry Quarried Area Mountain Quarrying Animal Called Hole