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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849.
  在1849年参与加利福尼亚州淘金热的矿工。
• 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。
• 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。