gold rush
英 [ˈɡəʊld rʌʃ]
美 [ˈɡoʊld rʌʃ]
n. 淘金热
牛津词典
noun
- 淘金热
a situation in which a lot of people suddenly go to a place where gold has recently been discovered
柯林斯词典
- 淘金热
Agold rushis a situation when a lot of people suddenly go to a place where gold has been discovered.
英英释义
noun
- a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
双语例句
- In a word, the gold rush kindled the flame of the modern civilization in alaska.
总之，淘金热点燃了阿拉斯加现代文明的火种。 - All that new money led to a real-estate gold rush that has seen property prices rocket like a Sputnik.
这里的房价像人造卫星一样飙升，导致新一轮房地产淘金热。 - The small town became prosperous in the gold rush. Gold is a precious metal.
这个小镇在淘金热期间繁荣起来。金子是一种贵金属。 - Leland Stanford, who grew up and studied law in New York, moved West after the gold rush and, like many of his wealthy contemporaries, made his fortune in the railroads.
在纽约长大并学习法律的利兰·斯坦福在淘金潮后搬到了西部，和许多同时代的有钱人一样他投资了铁路事业。 - The California gold rush happened at the beginning of last century.
加利福尼亚淘金热出现在上世纪初。 - This surreal experience left me feeling a bit like Charlie Chaplin in the gold rush, when he invites his love to dinner and prepares the meal and waits but she does not come.
这种不真实的体验让我感觉自己有点像《淘金记》（thegoldrush）中的卓别林（charliechaplin）他请意中人共进晚餐，备好了饭菜，左等右等，她却没来。 - This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in the Golden State.
从此，“金州”（GoldenState）加利福尼亚开始了美国历史上从未有过的淘金热。 - It's a virtual gold rush to mine the mountain of potentially valuable data the genome contains.
基因组蕴含着潜在的有价值的资料，开凿这座大山，才叫真正的淘金热。 - The boom rivaled the California gold rush of 1848 in its excitement and Wild West atmosphere. And it brought far more wealth to the prospectors than any gold rush.
这项繁荣的事业在刺激性和粗犷的西部气氛上可与1848年的加州淘金热相媲美，而且它为勘探者带来了远超过淘金潮的财富。 - The majority of Chinese immigrants to Australia during the gold rush were indentured or contract labourers.
多数中国人移民到澳大利亚，在淘金人的契约或合同的劳动者。