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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Its history also includes a gold rush, an energy boom and the development of a thriving farm sector.
它的历史同样包括淘金热、能源热潮、农业部门的欣欣向荣。 - 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。 - During the California gold rush, many people had a dog-eat-dog life.
在加利福尼亚的淘金热潮中？许多人都过著一种互相倾轧的生活。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。