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
- 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - 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。