gold rush

英 [ˈɡəʊld rʌʃ]

美 [ˈɡoʊld rʌʃ]

n.  淘金热

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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
  Synonym:boombonanzagravygodsendmanna from heavenwindfallbunce

双语例句

• 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。
• However, it was the Gold Rush that changed the destiny of Alaska.
  不过，淘金热给阿拉斯加的命运带来了转机。
• At that time, gold was discovered in California and thousands of people rushed there to look for gold, so it became known as "the gold rush".
  当时有人在加利福利亚发现了黄金，于是成千上万的人涌到那里去寻找金子，成为广大为人知的“淘金热”。
• 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。
• Chaplin featured in the gold rush.
  卓别林主演了《淘金热》这部片子。
• 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。
• 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。
• In the Yukon during the Gold Rush, mongrel teams were the rule.
  淘金热时期，在加拿大的育空，杂交的狗队通常是惯用的做法。
• It was a gold rush but in reverse.
  那是一场黄金热不过与淘金热正相反。
• 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。