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

• Crop farming, sheep farming, and the working of stone from the quarries formed the early backbone of San Marino's economy.
  在没有其它矿产资源的条件下，农耕、牧羊和采制石料便是早期和传统的经济来源；
• The rehabilitation contracts require the operators to rehabilitate the quarries within a specified period, in return for the granting of rights to process and sell surplus rock excavated during the course of the works.
  复修合约规定，采石商须于指定时间内复修石矿场，以换取采石权，把石矿场复修期间所挖掘的剩余石料加工出售。
• 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。
• 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；
• Accompanied by socio-economic development of quarries in China after being mined in a number of environmental and social issues.
  伴随着社会的经济发展，我国采石场在被开采后出现了许多环境与社会问题。
• In light of this results of the assessment, a preliminary plan for ecosystem and landscape restoration of the abandoned quarries is put forward.
  结合实际情况，提出了废弃采石场生态与景观恢复的具体方案，包括开发性治理、工程整治、景观再造、绿化与生态恢复。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• Quarries reforestation is an important part of Guangzhou's project of turning the city into one with "green hills and land, blue sky and clear waters".
  采石场整治复绿工作是广州市“青山绿地、蓝天碧水”工程的重要组成部分。