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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - For now, though, shale looks like the new gold rush.
不过，就目前而言，页岩就像是一轮新的淘金潮。 - 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。 - This area was affected by a great gold rush which ended when the only vein present was exhausted.
一场声势浩大的淘金热席卷了这里，并最终导致当地的金矿资源枯竭，但自然也对人类进行了报复。 - 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。 - Andy: I think China and Japan will tie on swimming gold rush.
安迪：我想中国和日本在游泳淘金中会平分秋色。 - It was a gold rush but in reverse.
那是一场黄金热不过与淘金热正相反。 - 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。