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
- 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。 - Its history also includes a gold rush, an energy boom and the development of a thriving farm sector.
它的历史同样包括淘金热、能源热潮、农业部门的欣欣向荣。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - At that time, gold was discovered in California and thousands of people rushed there to look for gold, so it became known as "the gold rush".
当时有人在加利福利亚发现了黄金，于是成千上万的人涌到那里去寻找金子，成为广大为人知的“淘金热”。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。