gold rush

英 [ˈɡəʊld rʌʃ]

美 [ˈɡoʊld rʌʃ]

n.  淘金热

TOEFL

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 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 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• Go in search of lost parts of totem in Story Mode or amass a fortune in Gold Rush mode.
  在故事模式中寻找失落的图腾或在挑战模式中不断刷新成绩。迎接淘金热潮，你准备好了吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。