Quarry
[ 'kwɔri ]
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n. 采石场;猎物;正方形，菱形;来源;
vt. 挖出;努力挖掘;
vi. 费力地找;
💡 词根助记
quar采石+ry表名词 →采石场
📝 例句
The hounds are getting close to their quarry.
猎狗正在接近猎物。
This mountain was the site for a quarry.
这座山曾经有一个采石
Even then she was certain the quarry stirred with life.
甚至在那时，她就肯定地认为，这个采石场里充满生气。
Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations.
每一句话似乎都给人以许多冥思默想。
The ultimate solution would appear to be transporting it back to the quarry.
看来最终的办法是将其送回矿坑内。
🌱 联想助记
【记】quarry-猎物,quarrel-吵架:为了猎物,大家会吵架
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
quarry
n
(a) animal or bird that is being hunted 正在被捕猎的鸟兽
The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest. 猎人失去了在林中追捕的鸟兽踪影.
(b) person or thing that is being looked for or pursued eagerly 被寻找或追逐的人或事物
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.
quarry n place where stone, slate, etc is extracted from the ground 采石场; 石矿. Cf 参看 mine2 1. quarry, v (pt, pp quarried)
1 [Tn, Tn.pr, Tn.p]
~ A for B/B from A; ~ sth out (of sth) extract (stone, etc) from (a quarry) 从（采石场）采（石等）
quarrying the hillside for granite 从山坡上采花岗石
quarry out a block of marble 挖出一块大理石.
2 [Ipr] search with great effort for information, etc 大力搜寻资料等
quarrying in old documents for historical evidence 查阅旧文件以寻找历史证据.
📖 同为「GMAT」词汇
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The age range is from 6 months to 47 years.
年龄档次从6个月到47岁不等。
Many kiss the baby for the nurse's sake.
醉翁之意不在酒。
In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.
在19世纪，小说家常在小说结尾处给读者准备一系列的巧合——大部分是牵强附会，极不可能的。