涌向西部淘金的许多人留在了当地,成为了农民和店主,还有些人则继续向西进发,在内华达或加州淘金。
Many of those who went west to search for gold stayed to become farmers or storekeepers. Others moved farther west to find gold in Nevada or California.
报纸大量发表有关淘金的故事,这些故事说,到那淘金是很容易致富的,你到了那个地区后,你所有做的一切就是拾起地上的黄金。
Newspapers printed stories that said it was easy to become rich. All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground.
早期淘金热的时光一去不复返了,那时的淘金者,就像传说中的“先驱49人”一样,仅仅是从溪水中通过简单的过滤获得天然沙金。
The days are gone when most gold was gathered by people like the “49ers” of California’s gold rush, who merely sifted water to remove nuggets.
People came out here to try and reinvent themselves with the Gold Rush even.
淘金热的时候,人们来到这里试着开始新的生活。
where everyone came out to make millions on gold.
那时候每个人都想着去那里淘金,赚得很多的钱。
You first had the gold rush in the 1850s
先是在19世纪50年代兴起了淘金热,
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