quarry
quarry 英 [ˈkwɒri] 美 [ˈkwɔri]
n. 采石场；猎物；来源 vi. 费力地找 vt. 挖出；努力挖掘
进行时:quarrying 过去式:quarried 过去分词:quarried 第三人称单数:quarries 名词复数:quarries
- 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.
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- n. 采石场；猎物；来源
- vi. 费力地找
- vt. 挖出；努力挖掘
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1. Finally, we ended up in an abandoned quarry.
最后，我们到了一个废弃的采石场。
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2. At a distance there is already a modern quarry.
不远处已经有了一座现代化的采石场。
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3. 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。
- quarry (n.1) "what is hunted," early 14c., quirre "entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward," from Anglo-French quirreie, Old French cuiriee "the spoil, quarry" (Modern French curée), altered (by influence of Old French cuir "skin," from Latin corium "hide"), from Old French corée "viscera, entrails," from Vulgar Latin *corata "entrails," from Latin cor "heart," from PIE root *kerd- "heart." Sense of "anything chased in hunt" is first recorded 1610s; earlier "bird targeted by a hawk or other raptor" (late 15c.).
- quarry (n.2) "open place where rocks are excavated," c. 1400 (mid-13c. as a place name), from Medieval Latin quareia, dissimilated from quarreria (mid-13c.), literally "place where stones are squared," from Latin quadrare "to make square," related to quadrus "a square," quattuor "four" (from PIE root *kwetwer- "four").
- quarry (v.) 1774, from quarry (n.2). Related: Quarried; quarrying.
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