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单词 Lasseter's reef
释义

Definition of Lasseter's reef in English:

Lasseter's reef

nounˌlasətəz ˈriːf
Australian informal
  • A very rich source of something, especially when elusive or mythical.

    PC users have stumbled upon a Lasseter's reef of communications possibilities
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is as close to finding a Lasseter's reef that you could get.
    • A Lasseter's Reef like discovery of 700,000 ounces of high grade gold in an area so remote the prospectors never really got to it.
    • They would not have traded this Gospel for a thousand Lasseter's reefs!
    • The suspicion that out there among the coral reefs there lies a Lasseter's Reef of oil has meant the search went on.
    • Earn it, exchange assets for it or mine it and short of finding Lasseter's Reefs everywhere, gold would quickly have a steady value in exchange.

Origin

1930s: from the name of Lewis Herbert Lasseter (born Harold Bell Lasseter) (1880–1931), an Australian prospector who, in 1929, claimed to have discovered a huge gold-bearing reef in central Australia which has never been found.

 
 
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