pay dirt meaning in English
〔美俚〕有利可图的含金矿石[矿砂]；〔比喻〕有利可图的发现。
Examples
- They hit pay dirt on the fourth day .
第四天，他们就发现了苗头。 - Ever seen anything that looked like pay dirt
有没有发现什么有利可图的东西 - After years of experimentation they finally hit pay dirt
他们经过数年的试验，终于成功了。 - Although the origins of the scientism genre can be traced to the writings of galileo and thomas huxley in centuries past , its modern incarnation began in the early 1970s with mathematician jacob bronowski ' s the ascent of man , took off in the 1980s with sagan ' s cosmos and hit pay dirt in the 1990s with hawking ' s a brief history of time , which spent a record 200 weeks on the sunday times of london ' s hardcover best - seller list and sold more than 10 million copies in 30 - plus languages worldwide
虽然科学主义之风可溯自数世纪前伽利略与赫胥黎的著述，但它到了现代却又再度投胎转世，从1970年初数学家布罗诺斯基《文明的跃升》开始，到1980年代萨根的《宇宙》一书使之起飞；而1990年代霍金的《时间简史》更是挖到金矿，在英国《星期日泰晤士报》中，创下伦敦最畅销精装书排行榜蝉联200周的纪录，该书在全球以30多种语言发行，销售逾1000万本。