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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - All that new money led to a real-estate gold rush that has seen property prices rocket like a Sputnik.
这里的房价像人造卫星一样飙升,导致新一轮房地产淘金热。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。