英语释义

• extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry;

  "quarry marble"

• 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"

• animal hunted or caught for food

片语

quarry face采石场采掘面

quarry stone毛石；石块，采石场原石

The QuarryThe Quarry is Iain Banks's final novel, which was published posthumously in late June 2013. It deals with an autistic youth, Kit, and his father, Guy, a misanthrope who is dying of cancer.

quarry floor采石场底部

quarry sand坑砂

plaster quarry采石膏场

quarry waste采石场废料

quarry bay鲗鱼涌

limestone quarry石灰石采矿场

rock quarry采石场

英汉例句

• eventually, he leaves the city to work as a manual laborer at a granite quarry owned by guy francon of francon &heyer—which by now has become francon &keating.

  最终，他离开了这座城市，在一个花岗巖采石场当了体力劳动者，这个采石场由弗朗&埃耶尔公司的盖伊·弗朗所有，那家建筑公司如今变成了——弗朗&基廷公司。

• careful checks have also been carried out on the roadside verge where yeates「 body was found on christmas morning and the nearby quarry and woods.

  警方还对在圣诞节早上发现尸体的场所附近的路边以及采石场和树林进行了仔细的搜索。

• workers in a lime quarry in the neander valley near düsseldorf, germany, unearthed a puzzle in a small cave: a number of ancient-looking bones.

  在德国杜塞尔多夫附近的尼安德谷的石灰采石场，工人们从一个小洞穴中挖出了一个谜：一些看上去古老的骨头。

• instead of being simply the quarry in a chase, he is revealed as a twisted but articulate antagonist, who has devised a horrible plan for concluding his sermon.

  并非被追逐的猎物，他显示出了自己是一个虽然变态却清醒的对手，他设计了一个恐怖的计划来完成他的布道。

• these grainy photographs show the man, who some believe to be a poacher, striding towards his quarry and apparently cutting its throat before phoning an accomplice.

  这些斑驳不清的照片中，一个被认为是偷猎者的人走近他的猎物，明显看出先割断它的喉咙然后给帮兇打了电话。

• the quarry does not view virtue and vice from the standpoint of the hunter.

  猎物自然不会站在猎人的立场上去看待善与恶。

• found in a utah quarry in 1994, the fossils languished in an oklahoma museum until 2007, when taylor and wedel convened to study them.

  化石是在1994年犹他州的一处采石场被发现的，之后一直躺在了俄克拉荷马州一个博物馆里，直到2007年，泰勒和威德尔召开会议要研究它们。

• there was a time when fishermen were seen as the last hunter-gatherers—pitting their wits against the elements by pursuing their quarry on the last frontier on earth. those days are gone.

  渔民曾经被视为最后的猎人群体——使用智慧在地球的最后一块边界追逐他们的猎物，并以此来对抗自然环境；这样的日子一去不复返了。

• the turks retort that ani」s remains have been shaken by blasts from a quarry on the armenian side of the border.

  而土耳其人则反击说，阿尼遗址被亚美尼亚边境上采石场的爆破所影响。

• at the conclusion of our excursion, we descended into the valley of shangri-la only to see a huge gravel quarry (supporting the new road construction) located adjacent to an expansive wetlands.

  在我们游览结束之时，我们下到香格里拉峡谷中，不想却看到一个巨大的砾石采石场（用于新公路施工）就坐落在一片辽阔的湿地附近。

• more than 180 miles of quarry tunnels snake through the foundations of paris, nearly all of them off-limits.

  180多英里长的采石场隧道洞穿了巴黎的地底，这些隧道几乎没有尽头。

• 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。

• soon, a businessman who admires the buildings roark managed to have built finds him at the quarry and brings him back to new york to work on an apartment building.

  不久，一位仰慕罗克设计建筑的商人在采石场发现了他，把他带回了纽约，让他负责设计一所公寓大楼。

• tools of the trade include lanky, unfeathered legs and an extraordinarily long middle toe for catching quarry and holding it fast.

  猎物工具包括修长的，没有羽毛脚和非常长的中趾，用来抓住和牢牢地夹持住猎物。

• rapa nui's ancient inhabitants left the quarry in a fascinating condition—it is home to some 400 statues, which appear in all stages of completion.

  拉帕努伊的古代居民让这个采石场处于一个令人着迷的境况中——这里有400个左右的石像，呈现出雕刻过程的各个阶段。