quarrying

基本解释

These include coal mining, quarrying, oil drilling, and the injection of wastewater into the ground.
这些活动包括采煤、采石、石油钻探和向地下注入废水。
A quarrying operation in Reading, Pa., is believed by some seismologists to have set off a series of smaller quakes in that region.
还有一些人相信宾夕法尼亚州雷丁的采石作业引发了该地区一系列规模较小的地震。
Take an engineer who runs a quarrying firm in Tamil Nadu, providing stone for sands, grits and gravels used in everything from houses to roads.
有位工程师在泰米尔那德邦经营着一家采石场，开采石头用作道路、房屋建造中使用的沙子石子的原料。

Eventually, some 150 illegal mining and quarrying companies in the area were shut down.
ECONOMIST: Rural activism
Solid waste combustion, sewage treatment, stone quarrying, marinas, and oil and coal-fired power plants have air pollution damages larger than their value added.
FORBES: Pollution Costs More Than What is Produced to Make the Pollution

A quarry is an area that is dug out from a piece of land or the side of a mountain in order to get stone or minerals.
When stone or minerals are quarried or when an area is quarried for them, they are removed from the area by digging, drilling, or using explosives.
an animal, bird, or fish that is hunted, esp by other animals prey
a square or diamond shape