• n. 采石場；獵物；來源
• vi. 費力地找
• vt. 挖出；努力挖掘
• n. (Quarry)人名；(英)夸里

來自拉丁語quadrare,給石頭打磨，使成（四）方形，詞源同four,square,quarter.引申詞義石頭打磨聲，采石場。

來自古法語coree,內臟，腸，來自拉丁語cor,心，心臟，詞源同heart,cordial.原指給獵鷹獵捕 到獵物后的獎賞，后引申詞義獵物。

quarry

quarry: Quarry from which stone is extracted [15] and quarry which one hunts [14] are quite different words. The former was borrowed from Old French quarriere, a derivative of *quarre ‘square stone’. This went back to Latin quadrum ‘square’, which was based on the stem quadr- ‘four’, source of English quadrangle, quadrant, quadruped, etc.

The sort of quarry that is pursued came from Anglo-Norman *quire or *quere, which denoted ‘entrails of a killed deer given to the hounds to eat’. This went back to Old French cuiree, which was an alteration of an earlier couree or coree. And this in turn was descended from Vulgar Latin *corāta ‘entrails’, a derivative of Latin cor ‘heart’.

The present-day sense of the English word emerged in the 15th century.
=> quarter; cordial, courage, record

quarry (n.1)

"what is hunted," early 14c., quirre "entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward," from Anglo-French quirreie, Old French cuiriee "the spoil, quarry" (Modern French curée), altered (by influence of Old French cuir "skin," from Latin corium "hide"), from Old French corée "viscera, entrails," from Vulgar Latin *corata "entrails," from Latin cor "heart," from PIE root *kerd- (1) "heart" (see heart (n.)). Sense of "anything chased in hunt" is first recorded 1610s; earlier "bird targeted by a hawk or other raptor" (late 15c.).

quarry (n.2)

"open place where rocks are excavated," c. 1400 (mid-13c. as a place name), from Medieval Latin quareia, dissimilated from quarreria (mid-13c.), literally "place where stones are squared," from Latin quadrare "to square" (see quadrant).

quarry (v.)

1774, from quarry (n.2). Related: Quarried; quarrying.

1. Three miles away there was a salvo of blasting in the quarry.

三英里之外的采石場進行了爆破作業。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Quarry tiles are a popular kitchen flooring.

缸磚是一種流行的廚房地面材料。

來自柯林斯例句

3. the site of a disused quarry

廢棄的采石場

來自《權威詞典》

4. The policeman watched his quarry go into a bar.

警察看著他在追捕的人走進一家酒吧.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The hounds are getting close to their quarry.

獵狗正在接近獵物.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》