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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It was a gold rush but in reverse.
  那是一场黄金热不过与淘金热正相反。
• 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。
• In the Yukon during the Gold Rush, mongrel teams were the rule.
  淘金热时期，在加拿大的育空，杂交的狗队通常是惯用的做法。
• 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。
• 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。