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

• 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。
• 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。
• Chaplin featured in the gold rush.
  卓别林主演了《淘金热》这部片子。
• Andy: I think China and Japan will tie on swimming gold rush.
  安迪：我想中国和日本在游泳淘金中会平分秋色。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。