English translation for "pay dirt"

〔美俚〕有利可图的含金矿石[矿砂]；〔比喻〕有利可图的发现。


Related Translations:

dirt:  n.1.污物；烂泥；油垢；灰尘。2.泥土；土地；【矿物】含金土。3.毫无价值的东西。4.肮脏，下贱，卑鄙。5.骂人话，恶言。6.下流话，下流作品。7.〔美俚〕闲谈，聊天；钱；糖；秘密情报；〔美乐俚〕 ＝ blues. treat a person like dirt 视某人如草芥。短语和例子common as dirt 草芥一样到处皆是的，平凡的。 yellow dirt

dirt bed:  【地质学；地理学】泥土层。

dirt road:  〔美国〕(未铺路面的)沙土路。

dirt floor:  (屋内未铺地板的)泥土地面。

dirt farmer:  〔美口〕自耕农 (opp. gentleman farmer)。

dirt wagon:  〔美国〕垃圾车。

dirt pie:  (小孩游戏做的)泥饼。

dirt track:  沙土[煤渣]跑道。

dirt money:  〔英俚〕装卸污臭货物时额外付给码头工人的补贴。

dirt eating:  食土癖。

Example Sentences:

	1.	They hit pay dirt on the fourth day . 第四天，他们就发现了苗头。
	2.	Ever seen anything that looked like pay dirt 有没有发现什么有利可图的东西
	3.	After years of experimentation they finally hit pay dirt 他们经过数年的试验，终于成功了。
	4.	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。

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