2a golden opportunityCHANCE/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 misseda golden opportunity to become a millionaire.• But Tories have attacked the decision and say a golden opportunity to boostforeign 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 traditionaldominance which it had lost during the war.• As a result a company may have a golden opportunity to remove its operators from their centralrole in controllingproduction.• The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.• Classicfootage, but a golden opportunitywasted to trace his career from his Olympicgoldmedal days.
3golden boy/girlSUCCESSFULsomeone 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 currentgolden 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 formidablecombination.• From the very beginning, Tordella was the golden boy of the PuzzlePalace.• Ratner is not a fallen golden boy of the Thatcherera, nor a victim of his own jokes.• Terms such as thought leader, golden boy, or winnerrefer 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
5somebody is goldenAmerican 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.
6HCM 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 glazedbottom so let the buns bake until the tops are a deep golden brown.• Sensing the audiencecraving for that goldenera, the band played it up.• Every leaf was picked out in goldenradiance.• She lay on the bed and pulled the coverlet up over herself and the goldenSatanshone behind her closed eyes.• a goldenstatue• goldensunlight• I once dreamt of her as an angel with goldenwings.