quarry

cantera

Gran excavación al aire libre de la que se extrae piedra o arena.

En inglés sencillo: A large open hole in the ground where people dig out stone or sand.

• He works in a quarry.
• They took marble from the quarry to build the museum.
• The old quarries have filled with water.

Expresiones frecuentes: stone quarry, abandoned quarry, work in a quarry

presa

Animal que una persona u otro animal está intentando cazar.

En inglés sencillo: An animal that a person or another animal is hunting.

• The hawk watched its quarry.
• The hunters lost sight of their quarry in the forest.
• A fox followed its quarry across the field.

Sinónimos: prey, game

Expresiones frecuentes: pursue its quarry, hunt their quarry, catch its quarry

objetivo

Persona o cosa que alguien intenta encontrar o capturar.

En inglés sencillo: A person or thing that someone is trying to find or catch.

• The detective finally found his quarry.
• Her quarry was a rare book missing from the library.
• The reporters pursued their quarry through the station.

Sinónimos: target

Expresiones frecuentes: elusive quarry, find their quarry, pursue their quarry

extraer, desenterrar

Obtener información u otro material útil mediante una búsqueda larga y cuidadosa.

En inglés sencillo: To obtain information or other useful material by searching carefully for a long time.

• They quarry facts from old letters.
• She quarried evidence from hundreds of records.
• The historian spent years quarrying material from private archives.

Cómo se usa: quarry something from something (She quarried details from old court records.); quarry something out of something (He quarried useful facts out of forgotten reports.)

Sinónimos: extract, unearth

Expresiones frecuentes: quarry facts, quarry from something, quarry out something