Quarry

(verb.) extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; 'quarry marble'.

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• They were more mobile than his troops, but they missed their quarry in the darkness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hard by was a small stone-quarry. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It was his opinion that it was cheaper to quarry and concentrate lean ore in a big way than to attempt to mine, under adverse circumstances, limited bodies of high-grade ore. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A good stone quarry in the neighbourhood of London would afford a considerable rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Being a hunter, he was obliged to follow the migrations of his ordinary quarry. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It was desired to divide large blocks generally at the quarries to facilitate transportation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The best known quarries are those of New England. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In a short time the two youths had become inseparable friends, experimenting together, and taking walks to the mines and quarries in the neighborhood of Penzance in search of minerals for study. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They dispossessed _Homo Neanderthalensis_ from his caverns and his stone quarries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Perhaps quarrying would be a better term than mining in this case, as Edison's plan was to approach the rock and tear it down bodily. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is commonly found in reefs or veins among quartz, and in alluvial deposits; it is separated, in the former case, by quarrying, crushing, washing and treatment with mercury. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But slight as had been the discoveries and experiments referred to, they were the mine from which the inventions of subsequent times were quarried. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The immense veins of magnetic ore lie close to the surface and are mined or quarried by working along a series of benches or ledges. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They quarried the clay, manipulated it, constructed and decorated the ware, burned it in a rude furnace and wore it out in a hundred uses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It is abundant in America and is largely quarried in the United States for building purposes, especially in New England. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Granite quarried anywhere in which felspar predominates is not well adapted for buildings, as it cracks and crumbles down in a few years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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