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
- 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。 - 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 Gold Rush proved a disaster for Sutter himself.
对萨特本人来说，淘金最终是一个灾难。 - 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。 - It was a gold rush but in reverse.
那是一场黄金热不过与淘金热正相反。 - Chaplin featured in the gold rush.
卓别林主演了《淘金热》这部片子。 - 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。 - In a word, the gold rush kindled the flame of the modern civilization in alaska.
总之，淘金热点燃了阿拉斯加现代文明的火种。 - 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”。 - 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。