| 单词 | goldfield town |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoldfield town b. With the first element in singular form, as goldfield town, goldfield worker, etc. ΚΠ 1859 Era 10 Apr. Don't imagine..that we are entirely uncivilized (though it is only a gold field town). 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 272 The goldfield town near which was the station. 1926 A. J. Goldsmith Reminisc. Old Engineer 5 We arrived in Melbourne in the goldfield days, to find living very rough. 1994 Slavic Rev. 53 773 The goldfield workers were the lowly of the empire's proletariat—the hopelessly unemployed, peasants hoping to strike it rich and political exiles working out their terms. 2016 Sportsman (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Oct. 12 Having spent his early adolescence in the Victorian goldfield town of Ballarat, Blainey retains an enduring connection to rural Australia and the mining industry. < as lemmas |
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