a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;
"a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
双语例句
We took a rope to go rock-climbing up the side of a disused stone quarry. 我们带着绳子去一个废弃的采石场玩攀岩。
The Palermo stone also mentions expeditions to Sinai as well as to the diorite quarries northwest of Abu Simbel. 帕勒摩石碑也提及到远征西奈山，同时也提到前往阿布辛拜勒西北部的闪长岩采石场。
