quarries

英 [ˈkwɒriz]

美 [ˈkwɑːriz]

n.  采石场; 被追猎的动物(或人); 追捕的对象; 猎物
v.  从(采石场)采(石等)
quarry的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 采石场;露天矿场
  Aquarryis an area that is dug out from a piece of land or the side of a mountain in order to get stone or minerals.
  1. ...an old limestone quarry.
     废旧的石灰岩采石场
• VERB 开采(石料或矿产);在…开采
  When stone or mineralsare quarriedor when an areais quarriedfor them, they are removed from the area by digging, drilling, or using explosives.
  1. The large limestone caves are also quarried for cement.
     同时还在这些大石灰岩洞里开采水泥原料。
  2. ...locally quarried stone.
     当地采掘的石头
• 追捕的对象；猎物
  A person's or animal'squarryis the person or animal that they are hunting.

双语例句

• It is in contrast with many other quarries throughout the world where cold winters delay and in some cases completely stop their production for long periods of time.
  这让我们与其他世界各地的采石场占有优势，有些采石场因为冬天天气等因素的影响造成生产的拖延甚至长时间停止生产。
• He who quarries stones may be hurt by them, and he who splits logs may be endangered by them.
  传10：9凿开〔或作挪移〕石头的、必受损伤.劈开木头的、必遭危险。
• Due to the closeness of our quarries to Neyriz city, we have chosen this city for the location of the IMS quarry office and guest house.
  由于Neyriz城市与IMS采石场距离非常近，我们在市里设置了IMS的石矿场办公室和招待所，接待客户。
• Photographer Edward Burtynsky is renowned for his large-scale photographs of nature transformed by industry, producing beautiful but thought-provoking art from manufactured landscapes of quarries, factories, mines, and recycling dumps.
  摄影师艾华毕田斯基以创作大型摄影作品闻名。他擅于从石矿场、工厂、回收废物等人工风景取材，拍出一系列美丽而动人心魄的照片。
• To curb pollution during the games, the authorities have closed all construction sites in Beijing as well as dozens of factories and quarries in and around the city for two months.
  为了遏制奥运期间的污染，官方关闭了北京的所有建筑工地、市内及周围的许多工厂和采石场，为期2个月。
• Snow-capped mountains loom in the distance while smaller hills tumble down towards the town, criss-crossed by paths and nibbled away by quarries at their bases.
  在远处的皑皑雪峰隐约出现之时，规模较小的群山则向古城倒来。丽江城内，阡陌纵横，但底部正受采石厂蚕食。
• Which is better, to incinerate the rubbish from our towns or to tip it into disused quarries?
  在我们城里把垃圾予以焚化，还是倒进废弃的采石坑，哪一种方法好？
• The information refers to slopes in opencast mines, quarries, dam foundation excavations and highway outs.
  这份资料提供了有关露天矿、采石场，坝基和公路堑的边坡资料。
• Two kinds of stone have been used in the construction of the church: inside, a gray-reddish type from the quarries at Lifta, north-west of Jerusalem;
  建筑教堂时会用到两种石头：内层采用在耶路撒冷西北方一个名叫Lifta地方的矿石场采到带红的灰石；
• Ecological and Landscape Restoration of Some Foreign Quarries
  国外采石场的生态和景观恢复