"he threw a rock at me"
"he wanted a special stone to mark the site"
"that mountain is solid rock" "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries"
"he had the gem set in a ring for his wife" "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones"
"a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone"
"you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
"he must have a heart of stone" "her face was as hard as stone"
"People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock"
"pit plums and cherries"
误 Marble is precious stone.
正 Marble is a precious stone.
析stone作“石料”解时为物质名词,不可数,但stone前面可加不定冠词a,表示“一种”。