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quarry

/kwawr-ee, kwor-ee/US // ˈkwɔr i, ˈkwɒr i //UK // (ˈkwɒrɪ) //

采石场,石矿场,石场,石料场

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n.名词 noun
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    plural quar·ries.

    • : an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc.
    • : an abundant source or supply.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    quar·ried, quar·ry·ing.

    • : to obtain from or as if from a quarry.
    • : to make a quarry in.

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Examples

  • “There were a lot of farmworkers’ houses and people who worked at the quarry,” she said.

  • Our sights are set far smaller—bluegills, crappie, and perch, the perfect first quarry for a beginner.

  • Photos from 1992 and 2001 document pieces in which the Scotland-based artist froze rocks to a quarry face and laced a stone wall with large icicles.

  • Like a rock quarry or a cable television provider, regional casinos are inherently good businesses.

  • You’ll find waterfalls and dinosaur tracks near this RV-friendly site, which is perched on the edge of a former quarry, a national historic landmark that’s now a lake.

  • Castle Black is built into an old quarry about 45 minutes north of Belfast.

  • We shot it in an abandoned quarry just outside of Split in Croatia.

  • He says the way we do this is similar to a bird of prey assessing its quarry, swooping in.

  • The sexually voracious alpha-female who seduces and then consumes her quarry?

  • As rocks tumbled from the quarry wall above, the need for capped helmets became clear.

  • Here is a gold-mine for the makers of boys' books of all future generations to quarry in.

  • Now it happened that these steps of the dwarfs adjoined a deserted stone quarry less than a mile from the castle of Clarides.

  • No man who ever was in a quarry or gravel pit will say so, much less one who has the least smattering of chemistry or geology.

  • Nor can one who in pumping out his quarry frees another quarry from water recover anything for the service.

  • On one occasion (we are not told the date or place) the hunter nearly became a prey to his quarry.