golden

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gold·en /ˈɡəʊldən $ ˈɡoʊl-/ W3 adjectiveadj

1 CChaving a bright yellow colour like gold 金色的，金黄色的

golden hair

金发

golden sand

金色的沙

2 a golden opportunity CHANCE/OPPORTUNITYa good chance to get something valuable or to be very successful 良机，绝好的机会

He wasted a golden opportunity when he missed from the penalty spot.

他罚球没有命中，浪费了一个绝佳的机会。

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a golden opportunity• Personally, I think you have a golden opportunity before you.• By not buying that stock, I missed a golden opportunity to become a millionaire.• But Tories have attacked the decision and say a golden opportunity to boost foreign trade links could have been lost.• Tamny was appalled that Harleston had passed up a golden opportunity to dismiss Jeffries.• But the country as a whole may have missed a golden opportunity to put its fiscal house in order.• For the Treasury this presented a golden opportunity to recover its traditional dominance which it had lost during the war.• As a result a company may have a golden opportunity to remove its operators from their central role in controlling production.• The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.• Classic footage, but a golden opportunity wasted to trace his career from his Olympic gold medal days.

3 golden boy/girl SUCCESSFULsomeone who is popular and successful 金童/玉女

Hollywood’s golden girl, Julia Roberts

好莱坞玉女朱莉娅·罗伯茨

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golden boy/girl• She's Hollywood's current golden girl.• Even without mistakes, the halo effect eventually wears off when some one else emerges as the new golden girl.• First full season for Formula One's new golden boy.• They are golden boys, about 17 or 18, and apparently weightless.• So golden boy had flipped - this week?• Completing the trio of golden girls is Millicent Martin - it's a formidable combination.• From the very beginning, Tordella was the golden boy of the Puzzle Palace.• Ratner is not a fallen golden boy of the Thatcher era, nor a victim of his own jokes.• Terms such as thought leader, golden boy, or winner refer to people with a power base of reputation.

4 [only before noun]HAPPY a golden period of time is one of great happiness or success 〔时期〕幸福美好的，非常成功的

golden years/days etc

the golden years of childhood

幸福美好的童年

the golden age of radio

无线电的黄金时期

5 somebody is golden American EnglishAmE spoken informal used to say that someone is in a very good situation and is likely to be successful 某人有希望了

If the right editor looks at your article, you’re golden.

如果正好有慧眼识人的编辑看中你的文章，你就有希望了。

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somebody is golden• If the right editor looks at your article, you're golden.

6 HCM literary made of gold 金子的，金质的

a golden crown

金冠冕

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golden• Bake in a pre-heated oven for 40 min until golden.• The tops will brown before the glazed bottom so let the buns bake until the tops are a deep golden brown.• Sensing the audience craving for that golden era, the band played it up.• Every leaf was picked out in golden radiance.• She lay on the bed and pulled the coverlet up over herself and the golden Satan shone behind her closed eyes.• a golden statue• golden sunlight• I once dreamt of her as an angel with golden wings.

golden years/days etc• The oil crisis alone could not have shattered the confidence which capitalists felt during most of the golden years.• There were exaggerated expectations for one thing, a more or less inevitable consequence of those golden years.• Every long table is filled with oldsters in their golden years costumes-juvenile ensembles of short pants, shirts, and sneakers.• The 1960s were expansive, golden years for the television networks.• In the golden days of cinema, feuds often erupted between roguish directors and powerful studio heads.• During these golden years of instruction, parents can make a world of difference by staying engaged and supportive.• Nifty reputation Low-key, approachable and diffident, Matheny was the daddy during the golden days of Southwestern College art.• Where were the golden days which Paris and Chicago and Grosvenor Square had promised them?

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