资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
El Dorado \El` Do*ra"do\, pl. {El Doradoes}. [Sp., lit., the
gilt (sc. land); el the + dorado gilt, p. p. of dorare to
gild. Cf. {Dorado}.]
1. A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an
imaginary country in the interior of South America,
reputed to abound in gold and precious stones.
2. Any region of fabulous wealth; exceeding richness.
The whole comedy is a sort of El Dorado of wit. --T.
Moore.
资料来源 : WordNet®
El Dorado
n : an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought
in South America by 16th-century explorers [syn: {eldorado}]