a profitable success; "the inventor worked for years before hitting pay dirt"
ore that yields a substantial profit to the miner
例句与用法
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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