quarry

carrière

Grande excavation à ciel ouvert d’où l’on extrait de la pierre ou du sable.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : stone quarry, abandoned quarry, work in a quarry

proie, gibier

Animal qu’une personne ou un autre animal cherche à capturer ou à tuer.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : prey, game

Expressions courantes : pursue its quarry, hunt their quarry, catch its quarry

cible, proie

Personne ou chose que quelqu’un essaie de trouver ou d’attraper.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : target

Expressions courantes : elusive quarry, find their quarry, pursue their quarry

extraire, exhumer

Obtenir des informations ou d’autres éléments utiles grâce à une recherche longue et minutieuse.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : quarry something from something (She quarried details from old court records.); quarry something out of something (He quarried useful facts out of forgotten reports.)

Synonymes : extract, unearth

Expressions courantes : quarry facts, quarry from something, quarry out something