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
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双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The small town became prosperous in the gold rush. Gold is a precious metal.
  这个小镇在淘金热期间繁荣起来。金子是一种贵金属。
• 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。
• I didnt go to the movie "The Gold Rush" because I had seen it twice.
  我没去看电影“淘金热”，因为这部片子我已看过两遍。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。