gold rush

英 [ˈɡəʊld rʌʃ]

美 [ˈɡoʊld rʌʃ]

n.  淘金热

TOEFL

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)
  1. the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line
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双语例句

• I didnt go to the movie "The Gold Rush" because I had seen it twice.
  我没去看电影“淘金热”，因为这部片子我已看过两遍。
• 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。
• Go in search of lost parts of totem in Story Mode or amass a fortune in Gold Rush mode.
  在故事模式中寻找失落的图腾或在挑战模式中不断刷新成绩。迎接淘金热潮，你准备好了吗？
• Chaplin featured in the gold rush.
  卓别林主演了《淘金热》这部片子。
• A miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849.
  在1849年参与加利福尼亚州淘金热的矿工。
• The term "gold digger" became popular during the American Gold Rush.
  在美国“淘金热”时期，golddigger（“淘金者”，即以色相博取钱财的人，也就是我们俗称的“傍大款”）这个说法开始流行。
• 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。
• The Gold Rush proved a disaster for Sutter himself.
  对萨特本人来说，淘金最终是一个灾难。
• There has since been the bureaucratic equivalent of a gold rush.
  这样就引发了一拨官方激发的淘金热。
• 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。