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词汇 gold-rush
释义 gold rush
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˈɡəʊld ˌrʌʃ/ us /ˈɡoʊld ˌrʌʃ/
a situation in which a lot of people move to a place to try to find gold because they have heard that gold has been found there淘金热(指涌向新采金地的热潮)
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Arrivals and departures
admittance
advent
approach
arr.
arrival
bourne
check
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departure
departure for somewhere
descent
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entry
eta
gain admittance
influx
invasion
misconnect
misconnection
outflow
Examples from literature

Many of them became prospectors during the gold rush. 
Perhaps someday, like California, the Moon will have a gold rush. 
The gold rush had begun. 

gold rush | Business English


gold rush
noun[ S ]
ukus
a situation in which a lot of people try to take advantage of an opportunity because they have heard that they might make a lot of money:
Venture capitalists helped companies like Amazon and Netscape raise billions during the Internet gold rush.

Examples of gold rush


gold rush
The big winners in the goldrush were those who supplied the miners with food, clothing and equipment.
The availability of open access, exhaustible resources often induces 'goldrush' patterns of excessively fast exploitation with accompanying maladapted patterns of infrastructure and social development.
Some test takers actually performed badly on the goldrush text because they had applied their knowledge of a different goldrush.
Later, in the 1870s, came the goldrush in this area.
Klondike: the last great goldrush 1896- 1899.
Presumably there is something of a goldrush fever about heading for transhipment licences.
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Oil was a vogue industry, like a goldrush.
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This latter-day goldrush, this hunger for materials, is now having extremely brutal social and environmental repercussions and is continuing to fuel wars and corruption.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
There are many more trawlers joining in the "goldrush".
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Will it be on a goldrush scale?
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That provided for peace and co-operation instead of a bonanza type goldrush, and it passed in this country virtually without notice.
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It is impossible to operate a kind of "goldrush" on the ocean floor.
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The result has been a goldrush by the cable companies.
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I suspect that there will be an almighty goldrush by the building societies.
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We should, therefore, have reintroduced exchange controls immediately after devaluation and certainly we should have introduced them in the weeks immediately prior to the recent goldrush.
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