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

• 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。
• But now the gold rush is spilling into a new global arena: exchange-traded funds, a key market for investors in the precious metal.
  但如今这股热潮正涌向一个新的全球舞台：交易所交易基金（ETF）&对黄金投资者来说很重要的一个市场。
• It was a gold rush but in reverse.
  那是一场黄金热不过与淘金热正相反。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 Gold Rush proved a disaster for Sutter himself.
  对萨特本人来说，淘金最终是一个灾难。