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mother lode 主礦脈,資源的源頭,大量而重要的部分

the place where the largest amount of gold, silver, etc., in a particular area can be found; a major or profitable source or supply

Examples: 1) Cairn Energy recently struck the mother lode of oil fields in India.

2) New York City is a mother lode of actors.

(BBC, 2016/11/01)

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he believes the FBI may have found the “motherlode” of Hillary Clinton’s emails. At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he said he hoped the Democratic candidate’s 33,000 deleted messages could now be recovered.

The FBI is investigating new emails that may be linked to its probe into Mrs. Clinton’s private email server.

美國共和黨總統候選人川普指出,他相信聯邦調查局可能已經找到希拉蕊柯林頓電郵的[主礦脈]。川普在密西根州競選活動中說,希望聯調局現在能找到他的對手,柯林頓消失的三萬三千封電郵。

目前聯調局正在調查一批新的電郵,據信與希拉蕊的私人電郵伺服器有關。

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(Seattle Times, 2014/02/27)

NASA announces “mother lode” of new planets: 715

Our galaxy is looking far more crowded and hospitable. NASA on Wednesday confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside our solar system.

Scientists using the planet-hunting Kepler telescope pushed the number of planets discovered in the galaxy to about 1,700.

美國航空暨太空總署宣布一大群新行星:共715個。看來我們的銀河還真是熱鬧好客。航太總署星期三確認在我們太陽系以外,新發現了715顆行星。科學家運用尋找行星的克普勒天文望遠鏡,到目前為止發現銀河有大約一千七百顆行星。

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(The Washington Post, 2016/10/4)

Paleontologists have been hunting for dinosaur footprints in Mongolia since 1957, when a researcher stumbled upon dozens of tracks in the cold, dry desert. As researcher Shinobu Ishigaki and his colleagues reported in the journal Geological Quarterly in 2009, the Gobi is something of a fossilized footprint mother lode: Between 1995 and 2008, the scientists found more than 20,000 preserved tracks belonging to a variety of dinosaur species.

考古學家1957年開始在蒙古尋找恐龍的足跡,當時一個研究人員在寒冷乾枯的沙漠中無意中發現幾十個足跡。後來日本研究員Ishigaki在2009年一份科學期刊中撰文說,戈壁大沙漠就好比化石足跡的主礦脈,在1995到2008年之間,科學家找到兩萬多個隸屬某種巨大恐龍的足跡。

Sound: ICRT podcast

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Photo (stars): motherboard 

Photo (dinosaur): world bulletin