音标:['kwɒri] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
n. 采石场, 方形石, 猎物, 被追求物, 来源
vt. 挖出, 努力挖掘
vi. 费力地找
v. extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry
词型变化: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
考试类型:[托福/IELTS/GRE]
词性分布:
名词92%
动词8%

quarry的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. This mountain was the site for a quarry.这座山曾经有一个采石场。
  2. The horseman aimed his lance at his quarry.骑手把长矛对准了他的猎物。
  3. Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations.每一句话似乎都给人以许多冥思默想。
  4. It took the police several days to track down their quarry.警方用了几天时间追查到案中目标。
  5. Detectives kept the quarry under surveillance for weeks.侦探们监测那个目标已有好几个星期了。
用作动词(v.)
  1. We watched the workmen quarry out a huge block of marble .我们看到劳工们挖出一大块大理石。
  2. They are quarrying in old manuscripts.他们正在旧手稿中寻找资料。

词汇搭配

  • quarry waste采石场废料
  • quarry powder采石炸药
  • quarry face采石面
  • quarry rock采石场毛料,毛石料...
  • quarry car采石场斗车
  • quarry blasting采石爆破
  • quarry sap天然石含水量...
  • quarry stone石块
  • stone quarry采石场
  • quarry faced石料粗面的(毛面的)...
  • quarry rubbish石渣
  • quarry dust采石场粉尘
  • quarry water矿泉水
  • quarry tile方砖的
  • sand quarry采砂场
  • quarry hammer采石锤

经典引文

  • When Joue's..bird from hye Stoupes at a flying heron..The stone dead quarrey falls.

    出自:Spenser
  • In the white winter, rabbits are your quarry.

    出自:W. Bronk
  • The Hawfinch is shy and elusive, so..a far more challenging quarry than most rarities.

    出自:Bird Watching
  • The treatment of ancient philosophy as..a quarry for ideas to be developed in the light of modern theories.

    出自:Classical Review
  • In the mountains..they quarry out a white stone.

    出自:Goldsmith
  • Roofed with grey stone slates quarried at Stonesfield.

    出自:Mollie Harris
  • An approximately square or rectangular chamber quarried in the soft bedrock.

    出自:Antiquaries Journal
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