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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - It was a gold rush but in reverse.
那是一场黄金热不过与淘金热正相反。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。