Like miners panning for gold , number-crunchers love the stockmarket .

就像淘金的矿工一样，数字统计员们热爱股市。

But today 's gutsy investors are panning for gold in very different ways .

不过，这些大胆的投资者的淘金方式则是各有千秋。

The miners are panning for gold in the streams .

矿工们正在小河中淘金。

Many women had children strapped to their backs while they were panning for gold , waiting in water poisoned by mercury .

许多女人淘金时把孩子绑在背上，脚下是满含水银的污水。

In two years , the population of california explodes from 15000 to 1 00000 . Now , hand - panning is replaced by lines of sluice boxes desperately combing for anything the first prospectors missed . And the price of living rocket .

两年之内加利福尼亚的人口爆炸式增长，从1万5千增长至10万，手工淘金被一条条闸盒组成的流水槽替代，人们拼命想筛出先驱者们遗漏的宝藏，物价飞涨。