quarry

採石場

石や砂を掘り出すための、地面に開いた大きな露天の穴。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： stone quarry, abandoned quarry, work in a quarry

獲物

人や他の動物が狩ろうとしている動物。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： prey, game

よく使う表現： pursue its quarry, hunt their quarry, catch its quarry

追跡対象、目当て

誰かが見つけたり捕まえたりしようとしている人や物。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： target

よく使う表現： elusive quarry, find their quarry, pursue their quarry

掘り出す

長い時間をかけて丁寧に探し、情報などの役立つ材料を得る。

やさしい英語で： 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.

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

類義語： extract, unearth

よく使う表現： quarry facts, quarry from something, quarry out something