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

• Chaplin featured in the gold rush.
  卓别林主演了《淘金热》这部片子。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。