英语词汇quarry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

quarry. The quarry is now the object of any chase—the deer in hunting, the bird flown at in falconry—but it once meant something entirely different. In the Middle Ages the quarry, the word deriving from the Latin corium, “skin,” was the en- trails of the deer placed on the animal’s skin as a reward for the hounds after a hunt. Finally it came to mean what the hounds went after. The quarry in stone quarry derives from the Latin quadraia, “the place where stone is squared,” or cut into blocks.

词汇	quarry
词源	quarry. The quarry is now the object of any chase—the deer in hunting, the bird flown at in falconry—but it once meant something entirely different. In the Middle Ages the quarry, the word deriving from the Latin corium, “skin,” was the en- trails of the deer placed on the animal’s skin as a reward for the hounds after a hunt. Finally it came to mean what the hounds went after. The quarry in stone quarry derives from the Latin quadraia, “the place where stone is squared,” or cut into blocks.
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