| 单词 | boom town |
| 例句 | If you drive up and down those three roads and turn at every little green sign, you never know whether you will hit a ghost town or a boom town. In North Dakota, Boom, Bust and Oil 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z That's not the kind of weather descriptor likely to draw hordes of visitors to this agricultural boom town, Brazil's warmest state capital. World Cup gives dusty farm city its day in the sun 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z A century ago, when this waterway was the single transport route between the Caribbean and Bogotá, Honda was a boom town, a bustling port. ‘Waterweavers,’ and ‘Carrying Coca’ at Bard Graduate Center 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Both have become boom towns, with a steady stream of merchants and consumers, Haitians and Dominicans flowing back and forth on the bridge over the Massacre River. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Brevard County was the nation’s space boom town of smart young people. The hard-charging space program: Breakthroughs, breakups and breakneck 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z In real life, drilling companies injected millions of dollars into moribund local economies, transforming sleepy villages in Pennsylvania and other states into boom towns almost overnight. Hollywood faces fracking in 'Promised Land' 2013-01-02T13:35:09Z It's like Barnum's circus, a wild west boom town and that strange, splashy dystopia foreseen in Blade Runner, all under one roof. San Diego Comic-Con: 5 things we're excited for 2013-07-17T20:13:44Z The décor shifts from a snug middle-class home to a motel in the boom town Las Vegas and finally to a ghost town in the California desert, reflecting Webb’s developing madness and isolation. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z Harbor of many ships, haven of people from China, squatter's colony, fun fair, bazaar and boom town. Top 10 books set in Hong Kong 2012-07-04T11:00:00Z The churches were built mainly in the 19th century for a boom town in the west Midlands with full employment in the metalworking industry. One in 10 English churches needs urgent repairs 2010-06-30T14:05:00Z "But that's less interesting to me than what we found out: that it's a boom town that grew too fast." The Team: a theatre company who specialise in bursting American bubbles 2013-06-04T18:30:02Z An oil boom town gets its cultural legs. 52 Places to Go in 2014 2014-01-10T05:00:00Z Reminiscent of a frontier boom town, the human-built industrial port refines fossil fuels at a relentless pace. How these teams bring the actors home without saying a word 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Since the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of the plants have been removed to make way for renewable energy facilities or housing and shopping centers in desert boom towns such as Lancaster and Palmdale. Newsom administration offers legislation to protect western Joshua tree 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Throughout the sixteenth century, Potosí was a boom town, attracting settlers from many nations as well as native people from many different cultures. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Work in the mines was always grueling, but in the heyday of coal, it made for a glittering strand of little mountain boom towns. How Coal Mining and Years of Neglect Left Kentucky Towns at the Mercy of Flooding 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Masses who went on to seed their own patches of green heaven in the blooming suburbias of post-World War II boom towns. Commentary: Hollywood helped build the cult of the perfect green lawn into a disaster genre 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z During the 1980s, development in desert boom towns such as Lancaster and Palmdale replaced hundreds of thousands of Joshua trees with housing tracts and shopping centers. California Joshua tree is not threatened, regulators say. It could bring more development 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Carbon, just south of Eastland, Texas, is believed to draw its name in part from the oil discoveries of the early 20th century that turned communities like nearby Ranger into fabled boom towns. Sorting Through the Destruction From Several Wildfires, Texans Brace for More 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z In Searchlight, once a gold mining boom town now with fewer than 500 residents about an hour drive south of Las Vegas, Reid’s father was a hard rock miner who killed himself at age 58. Harry Reid buried in family ceremony in Searchlight, Nevada 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Population growth has slowed in Mendota, a onetime boom town thrumming with life and surrounded by lush green fields. California’s ‘Cantaloupe Center’ struggles to reign supreme as drought pummels agriculture across the West 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Other weatherworn, ancient-looking, wood buildings in various stages of collapse at first glance appear to be original structures — until you realize they were actually built after this boom town went bust. History in the hills: 2 classic Pacific Northwest hikes for history buffs 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Their daughter, Mia Salomé, was born in June 2018 in Iquitos — a one-time rubber boom town still only reachable from outside by plane or boat, though its streets buzz with scooters and three-wheeled taxis. Pandemic-era Latin America: Inequality, despair, upheaval — and a potential lost generation of youth 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The garage was in a neighborhood that a century ago housed a railroad depot boom town, but was now gang territory. Stolen Army assault rifles keep showing up in California 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z There is already something of a "boom town" atmosphere, with buzzing waterfront bars, shiny new shopfronts and an almost-finished cultural centre which will be one of the world's tallest wooden buildings. Gigafactories: Europe tools up against US and Asia as a car battery force 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z Los Angeles used to be a boom town for scoring musicians, with enough first-call players to fill three symphonic orchestras. COVID-19 changed how movie and TV music gets made. Why L.A. musicians are worried 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z For 10 years, downtown was a boom town, an improbable refutation of its history as a 9-to-5 enclave for commuters only. Coronavirus has turned once-bustling downtown L.A. into a ghost town. Can it recover? 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “We were the original oil boom town in the ‘20s and it’s a cool way of saying something is changing,” said Jacob Johnson, the creator of the websites and a Tulsa-based digital marketing executive. Free pizza and a 75-foot statue of Musk: the battle for the next Tesla plant 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z The reservation is situated not far from large oil boom towns like Williston and Watford City in North Dakota and is in the direct vicinity of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline expansion. A well of grief: the relatives of murdered Native women speak out 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The village, born more than a century ago as a gold-rush boom town, is now a Native community of about 235 people. As climate change melts Alaska’s permafrost, roads sink, bridges tilt and greenhouse gases release 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z The amount is a 16.5% increase from last year in the oil boom town. Rents in New Mexico’s largest city appear to be rising 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The place was known as a “boom town Eldorado,” according to the local paper. The Death of British Steel and the Myth of the Good Brexit 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z And it is just one of several radical solutions for struggling educators in the nation’s economic boom towns. The Fight to Keep Teachers in Tech Hubs From Being Priced Out 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The shale boom towns suddenly resembled their California counterparts after the gold rush. How the US fracking boom almost fell apart 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z It’d be easy as the mayor of a boom town to focus on the tangibles - after all Hancock’s administration is rolling out $937 million in public improvement projects over the next 10 years. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z One commenter said, “Seattle…a tech boom town built on 21st century slave labor.” Amazon warehouse workers need a union — a heavy lift in today’s America 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z China, however, is encouraging some of this business to move beyond the wealthy boom towns of the seaboard. One of China’s poorest provinces wants to be a tech hub 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Yet what Seattle desperately needs are crosstown car and bus routes, especially in the boom town around Amazon. Ideas for revamping old tunnel run through Seattle’s blind spot 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z That’s the thing about witnessing the transformation of a boom town. Take a last look as Rainier Square tumbles down; second-tallest building in Seattle will rise there 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But despite appearances - on paper, Walvis Bay is a boom town. Fishy smell from Namibian tax affairs 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z A stark division is apparent not only in a Virginia sliced by the I-95/I-64 crescent but in a France of boom towns and backwaters. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The proliferation of homeless encampments around the U.S., particularly in Western boom towns like Seattle, Los Angeles and Denver, above, has led to civic soul-searching — and court fights against local laws that ban “urban camping.” Golden Globe Awards, Fort Lauderdale: Your Monday Evening Briefing 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z After the oil started to dry up in the late 1950s, the once-prosperous boom town saw its oil workers transferred to other fields, and towns, to the south. How pistachios and a prison are keeping a little California town afloat 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Pace, the county commissioner, said the new arrivals are to some degree to be expected in a boom town and not a problem that’s worth killing the county’s newest industry. This Colorado county embraced the marijuana industry. Now it might ban pot businesses. 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Fifty years ago Muncie was a boom town, what are we going to do to get that back? 'Whoever wins the US election needs to address the rage out there': the view from Middletown 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The Seattle unit of the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park tells the story of the 1897 discovery of gold in Alaska and the Yukon Territory that made Seattle a boom town. Pioneer Square 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Such tragedies are increasingly common around Peoria, a one-time blue-collar boom town of 120,000 that lived--and now is dying--at the hand of the "great yellow God," the sprawling Caterpillar Tractor Co. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Ohio’s capital defeated a half-dozen, tech-savvy, boom town and Rust Belt opponents to win the U.S. Columbus nabs $50 million ‘smart city’ prize 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z “It was boom town,” remembers Mackie, “with pockets full of money waiting to get into the pubs.” Welcome to Grimsby—the British fishing town for Brexit 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z After spending about $20,000 to study industrial radiography, he left Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his wife, Laura, four years ago and found a job in the boom town. Fort McMurray, a Canadian Oil Boom Town, Is Left in Ashes 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z And many Canadians, without ever visiting, imagined an out-of-control boom town rampant with crime and social problems. Evacuated From Fort McMurray’s Wildfires but With Nowhere to Turn 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Shenyang, with a population of over eight million, was once a boom town, with its economy growing by 10 percent as recently as 2012. Boom Over, a Daily Jostle for Jobs Produces Mostly Despair 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Much like the protestant bourgeoisie of Reformation Europe, or the evangelicals of American boom towns, increasingly affluent Chinese turned to spirituality to compliment their newfound wealth and education. Xi Jinping Puts New Emphasis on 'Marxist Atheism' 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z San Francisco, America’s boom town, is flooded with the cash of well-paid technology workers and record numbers of tourists. San Francisco Torn as Some See ‘Street Behavior’ Worsen 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Nicknamed "Steel City," Pittsburgh was once a boom town of industry and corporate headquarters, but saw many of those jobs eliminated during the deindustrialization of the 1980s. Uber is expanding its self-driving research operations in Pittsburgh 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Unlike some fossil fuel boom towns, Colstrip’s development was carefully controlled to create a permanent community. The Town That Coal Built Sees Cloudy Future In Global Energy Shift 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z It was Canada’s greatest boom town until the recent decline in the price of oil. La Loche, the Canadian Town Where 4 Were Killed, Has a Bleak History 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Prices in boom towns like Denver and San Francisco are well above their pre-financial crisis peaks. Here's the Economic Stuff Obama Can—and Can't—Brag About Tonight 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Many of the victims were migrant workers from Henan, an impoverished northern Chinese province, who were drawn to the southern boom town for low-wage employment. Survivor pulled from rubble 67 hours after devastating China landslide 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z The town is Libya’s Aberdeen, transformed in the late 1970s from backwater to boom town by the oil industry. Western leaders urge Libyan factions to allow bombing of Isis fighters 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Benefiting from a copper boom in the 1870s, he opened a successful butcher shop supplying hungry customers in the mining boom towns. Australian mega-ranch sale excludes foreigners 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z While lists of millennial “boom towns” proliferate, Joel Kotkin, a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., noted that millennials also are flocking to places such as Detroit and Charlotte. Why Fairfax won’t change for millennials 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Money is flowing through Izmir, the third largest city in Turkey, now a grim hub for migrants and a boom town for residents. Money Flows With Refugees, and Life Jackets Fill the Shops 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z By the government’s own count, more than 68,000 people were killed in such accidents last year — nearly 200 every day, most of them poor, powerless and far from China’s boom towns. Behind Tianjin Tragedy, a Company That Flouted Regulations and Reaped Profits 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The spirit was that of a U.S. boom town in the late 1800s. Why Hiroshima Was Celebrating Just Two Years After the Bomb Dropped 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “I’m looking for my grandparents’ house,” Blanco explained, reciting the names of relatives who lived in what used to be this sugar boom town before the Cuban Revolution. America’s inaugural poet visits Cuba amid warming with US 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, about 200,000 Joshua trees were replaced with housing tracts and shopping centers in desert boom towns like Lancaster and Palmdale. Drought speeds decline of beloved California desert species 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Mayor Brent Sanford said nearly everyone would agree there are getting to be too many apartments in the mix, but he says they are a necessary part of the transition from boom town to hometown. Watford City aims to transition from boom town to hometown 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Real estate prices in boom towns are sinking and even the notoriously high coffee prices in mining capital Perth have leveled off at under $4. Layoffs and empty streets as Australia's boom towns go bust 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z With its deep reserves of oil-field expertise, Louisiana provides much of the labor and tools in boom towns elsewhere, meaning that standstills in North Dakota are felt acutely in the oil city of Lafayette. Louisiana Squeezed as Oil Prices Drop 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Wartime demand turned Mobile into a boom town, with tens of thousands drawn to Brookley Field and the city’s shipyards. Mobile museum hopes to display Gordon Parks photos 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z But it’s a monument to the storied past of a once-thriving boom town that had been celebrated as the “City of the Century.” 89-year-old Gary church turns into ruin gardens 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z A Colorado man pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murder of a Montana teacher in an oil boom town where residents say their lives were forever altered by the crime. Colorado man pleads guilty to oil patch murder 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Houston, Nashville and Denver are also flourishing college graduate boom towns with percentage increases of 50, 48 and 47 percent respectively. America's Boom Towns For College Graduates [Infographic] 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Of our top 10 fastest-growing small cities, five are energy-driven boom towns. America's Fastest-Growing Small Cities 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Weaverville, at the base of the Trinity Alps Wilderness area in Trinity County, was a Gold Rush-era boom town in far northern California. Wildfire threatens 500 northern California homes 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Weaverville, at the base of the Trinity Alps Wilderness area in Trinity County, was a Gold Rush-era boom town in far Northern California. Wildfire threatens 500 Northern California homes 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z The District is a boom town, with the soaring population and housing prices to prove it. Amid unprecedented prosperity, D.C.’s children grow poorer There are two big boom towns in America right now: Houston and Washington, D.C. Houston And GE: Opposite Fates From The Fiat Dollar 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Home values in this boom town went up an average of 100 percent, but when people were given time to delve into their individual valuation, each and every one left without complaint, he said. Brothers step aside as leaders in Mountrail County 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z “It is pure Americana, a onetime railroad boom town woven into the mountains of Appalachia.” Health Services Nominee Questioned and Praised at Senate Hearing 2014-05-08T15:29:22Z This is the case with Odessa, Texas, an oil boom town that has experienced rapid economic growth and large inflows of people. 10 Cities Where Violent Crime Is Soaring 2014-02-12T16:24:10Z Is D.C. a ‘boom town of the new economy’? Shutdown leaves GAO with massive backlog of contractors’ bid protests 2013-10-18T18:35:00Z Many of the huge dairy farms, orchards and potato fields that fed New York City, and the 19th-century boom towns that served those farms, display decades of neglect. City Chefs Head to the Hudson Valley, Lured by Fresh Ingredients 2013-08-13T20:00:05Z And it does seem to be happening again, in remote places like North Dakota where new energy discoveries are creating modern day boom towns. What baseball tells us about America 2013-07-18T23:10:17Z And at the heart of it all is the unlikeliest of boom towns. Mozambique town transformed by coal rush 2012-10-22T00:54:31Z But this week has begun with a turnaround tale, in which the "ghost town" has given way to an Olympics-boosted boom town. Olympics diary: talking up trade 2012-08-07T08:45:00Z The women of Gurgaon, angered by the recent incidents of violent crimes against women in the outsourcing boom town, are calling for a “Girlcott.” India Ink: Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a 'Girlcott' 2012-04-04T10:34:03Z I read in a paper the other day of a sign in front of an eat-joint in a Western boom town. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z Buenos Aires was the boom town of the region and the time. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z After the Columbian Exchange, the cities of Europe became the planet’s boom towns, and it wasn’t just because of the Europeans’ culture and guns. Findings: The Local Food Movement Is Rooted in Globalization 2011-08-29T19:27:05Z That a place like Wilmington, until recently a real estate boom town, would defer a purchase as essential as a fire truck for even one year, much less five, speaks to the withering toll. A City?s Wrenching Budget Choices 2011-07-05T02:53:57Z I saw it develop from a boom town, my family doing very well, through to the collapse of the industry and the bottom falling out of family life. How Ghost Town defined an era 2011-06-17T09:59:11Z In the southern boom town of Shenzhen, they charge 4 percent per month on loans secured by property and 4.6 percent on loans backed by vehicles, according to the official China Securities Journal. Private lending thrives under China credit clampdown 2011-03-17T07:09:53Z Listen to this: The nation is hurting and Washington, D.C., is a boom town. Ex-Governor Roemer to launch presidential bid 2011-03-02T23:08:37Z The boom town atmosphere brought complaints from some neighbors, but little of the crime associated with underground drug-dealing. Support for legalizing marijuana gaining ground rapidly 2009-11-23T05:00:00Z The emirate's transformation into a boom town had relied on a generation of Emirati executives armed with big ideas and Western business degrees. Special report: How Dubai got serious 2010-09-30T03:13:00Z The city was then a boom town, with car workers earning sky-high wages, which bolstered the local cost of living. Letters: Spurred on by the Olympic caravan 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z All the suicide victims were young migrant workers, among the millions of people who leave the poor hinterlands of China for the boom towns of the southern and eastern coastal areas. Hon Hai shares tumble on new China wage rise 2010-06-07T08:16:00Z They were all young migrant workers, among the millions of people who leave the poor hinterlands of China for the boom towns of the south and east coastal areas. Foxconn to up wages again at suicide-hit China plant 2010-06-06T15:59:00Z The dead were all young migrant workers, among the millions who leave the poor hinterlands of China for the boom towns of the south and east coastal areas in search of work and high wages. Another Foxconn worker dies, family blames overwork 2010-06-03T04:31:00Z The buildings that lined this thoroughfare were something between those of a city slum and those of a Western boom town. The Deaves Affair It was a typical boom town of the Lunar mining regions. Master of the Moondog "This certainly is worse than I anticipated, although I knew that we couldn't expect much in one of these boom towns." The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields A once-loved prince of German blood had been frozen out of the navy, and the internment camps were growing like boom towns. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards It was called a "boom town" for the reason that "booms" or yards for holding pine logs laced the quiet bayou and supplied several large mills with timber. A Son of the Middle Border It is an old story now, and none too interesting—the story of a boom town, founded on prairie breezes and built out of fortune seekers’ dreams. Winning the Wilderness A boom town is always a graft for first arrivals. 'Firebrand' Trevison Some of these boom towns have wretched quarters for newcomers. The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields The crew stayed for four weeks in a boom town of nine thousand, installing a complete telephone system. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Then Chick shows up, and they begin to talk over the details of this new bungalow boom town that’s to be located on the Jersey side. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe We got down from the train late in the afternoon at a village which reminded us, at first glance, of a boom town in the Far West. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France It was a boom town with material reasons for substantial growth. 'Firebrand' Trevison We drove on and in a few hours found the town—a little, raw boom town of unpainted boards and tents, which had sprung up almost overnight in that far-off region. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado If he actually did possess such a weakness, Little Missouri and the boom town were fully able to satisfy it. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands What could bring a girl of her sort to a boom town below the border? The Fifth Ace From boom town to boom town he went. Gigolo No "boom town" can possibly produce a genius: it only fosters sundry small Napoleons of finance. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians He looks to me like one of these confidence men who abound in the western boom towns—men who can talk the other fellow into putting his last cent into some 'sure thing.' The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run It was, in fact, "wild and woolly" to an almost grotesque degree, and the boom town was if anything a little cruder than its twin across the river. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands A promoter," he said, "was once trying to borrow money on a boom town. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Sam Pardee was drawn to a new town, a boom town, as unerringly as a small boy scents a street fight. Gigolo From the first it became evident that Willets would not be a boom town. The Trail Horde The place was as busy as a boom town in the oil country. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean Bank after bank went under; boom towns in the West collapsed; Eastern mills shut down; and working people in the industrial centers, starving from unemployment, begged for relief. History of the United States Of course there was a grand rush, and a boom town resulted. Buffalo Roost No intending purchaser of real estate in a boom town was ever treated to more optimistic propaganda. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form When you walk the streets you feel either that you are up very early, before any one is awake, or that you are in a boom town from which the boom has departed. With the Allies In the boom towns men earned four, five and even six dollars a day. Poor White Here is a little tribute from Paine's pen to America which some of our boomers of boom towns might do well to use: America has now outgrown the state of infancy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers New wells gushed every day, and boom towns were springing up all along the Allegheny valley. The Making of an American "What an awful place!" was her one comment at this most stirring of Western boom towns. The Titan That was Cold Branch—no boom town, but the slow growth of many years. Waifs and Strays Part 1 |
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