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词汇 forty-niner
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Definition of forty-niner in English:

forty-niner

nounfɔːti ˈnʌɪnəˌfɔrdiˈnaɪnər
  • A seeker for gold in the California gold rush of 1849.

    1849年涌往加利福尼亚的淘金者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of these ‘forty-niners’ had never before left the places where they had grown up.
    • Photographers like Vance captured studio dream and camp reality, treasured as mementos of a personal journey by the forty-niners and their female relatives.
    • On the eve of departure, many forty-niners also visited the daguerreian studio to have a ‘likeness’ or two taken for their closest and best-loved female companions, their mothers, wives and sweethearts.
    • It was the grape of choice to slake the thirst of forty-niners.
    • Born in Placerville, California, where his maternal grandparents were forty-niners, Gagliani grew up in the Italian community of San Francisco.
    • We identified the person in the photograph as Mary McCloskey, a young girl who sought her fortune in the California goldfields as a forty-niner.
    • Tucked in the northwest corner of Nevada, the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon look much the same as they did when the forty-niners journeyed through.
    • The following year saw thousands of forty-niners heading west to make their fortune.
    • Actually, the forty-niners employed technology from the beginning.
    • Beyond the sudden wealth, the celebrity criminals, and a few famous writers, the forty-niners ushered California into the modern age with an environmental disaster of the first magnitude.
    • Based in Walnut Creek and Lotus, Calif. - right by the mother lode that drew the forty-niners out West for the Gold Rush - AO Rafting seems isolated, deep in canyon country.
    • J.D. Borthwick, an English visitor, was amused at the swaggering style of the forty-niners.
    • As the forty-niners crossed the Rockies, one-third of them, after reaching Fort Bridger in southwestern Wyoming, detoured from the main trail through southern Idaho and across northern Nevada.
    • During the great California gold rush of 1849, thousands of forty-niners made fortunes mining gold.

Rhymes

angina, assigner, china, consignor, decliner, definer, Dinah, diner, diviner, hardliner, incliner, Indo-China, liner, maligner, Medina, miner, minor, mynah, recliner, refiner, Regina, Salina, Shekinah, shiner, signer, South Carolina, Steiner, twiner, whiner

Definition of forty-niner in US English:

forty-niner

nounˌfôrdēˈnīnərˌfɔrdiˈnaɪnər
  • A prospector in the California gold rush of 1849.

    1849年涌往加利福尼亚的淘金者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • We identified the person in the photograph as Mary McCloskey, a young girl who sought her fortune in the California goldfields as a forty-niner.
    • Photographers like Vance captured studio dream and camp reality, treasured as mementos of a personal journey by the forty-niners and their female relatives.
    • The following year saw thousands of forty-niners heading west to make their fortune.
    • Most of these ‘forty-niners’ had never before left the places where they had grown up.
    • Beyond the sudden wealth, the celebrity criminals, and a few famous writers, the forty-niners ushered California into the modern age with an environmental disaster of the first magnitude.
    • It was the grape of choice to slake the thirst of forty-niners.
    • Tucked in the northwest corner of Nevada, the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon look much the same as they did when the forty-niners journeyed through.
    • Actually, the forty-niners employed technology from the beginning.
    • On the eve of departure, many forty-niners also visited the daguerreian studio to have a ‘likeness’ or two taken for their closest and best-loved female companions, their mothers, wives and sweethearts.
    • J.D. Borthwick, an English visitor, was amused at the swaggering style of the forty-niners.
    • Based in Walnut Creek and Lotus, Calif. - right by the mother lode that drew the forty-niners out West for the Gold Rush - AO Rafting seems isolated, deep in canyon country.
    • As the forty-niners crossed the Rockies, one-third of them, after reaching Fort Bridger in southwestern Wyoming, detoured from the main trail through southern Idaho and across northern Nevada.
    • Born in Placerville, California, where his maternal grandparents were forty-niners, Gagliani grew up in the Italian community of San Francisco.
    • During the great California gold rush of 1849, thousands of forty-niners made fortunes mining gold.
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