1·As he sipped his drink he tried out another metaphor, involving a gold panning technique he had learned about in New Zealand.
他呷了一口酒，想再打个比喻。那是他在新西兰学到的从沙砾中筛金子的方法。
2·In gold panning, the mixture is swirled around in a shallow pan with water, the heavier gold particles settle to the bottom and the lighter particles are washed away.
淘金时，把金矿沙放在浅盘里用水淘洗，较重的金颗粒落在盘底，较轻的颗料就被冲走。
3·Some old miners are still panning for gold in the streams.
一些老矿工仍旧在这些河里淘金。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
4·Crowdsourcing is like panning for gold.
众包就好比是在淘金。
5·Statisticians trawl through the vast quantities of data these surveys produce rather as miners panning for gold.
数据学家们像矿工找寻金子一样查阅了这些调查的大量数据。
6·Dorian had offered to take me panning for gold in return for helping with work on his new log cabin.
多利安答应带我去采金，而我为他帮工作回报，他正在盖一幢新的原木小屋。
7·Statisticians trawl through the vast quantities of data these surveys produce rather as miners panning for gold. They are trying to find the answer to the perennial question: what makes people happy?
统计学家审读了这些调查中的大量数据，试图解答这个亘古问题：什么使人幸福？
8·Panning for gold or an exploration.
什么淘金啊、探险啊。
9·For many, gold mining did not pan out. For a few, it panned out well. But in time, huge machines were built that could wash many tons of dirt at a time. Panning died out.
但对于许多的黄金矿工而言都没能得偿所愿。只有一小部分的人找到了金子。后来，能在同一时间冲洗数千吨泥土的巨大的机器被建造成。用锅子淘金的方法消失。
10·Jack London is an outstanding American novelist who is adept at describing Arctic Panning for Gold. His masterpiece is thought to be Martin Eden in most literary history textbooks.
杰克。伦敦是美国以描写北极淘金而饮誉文坛的著名小说家，一般的文学史教材都认为他的代表作是长篇小说《马丁。伊登》。