广播电视英语短句 第 233 课：依赖动物-6

A newspaper of the time said those were the days of wildcat money. 当时的一份报纸说道，那是一个非常靠不住的时代。

It said a man might be rich in the morning and poor by night. 那是说一个早上腰缠万贯的人，到了晚上就有可能变得一贫如洗。

Wildcat was used in another way in the eighteen hundreds. 在 19 世纪，野猫被以另一种方式来使用。

It was used for an oil well or gold mine that had almost no oil or gold in it. 它被用来指里面没有石油或金子的油井或金矿。

Dishonest developers would buy such property. Then they would sell it and leave town with the money. 奸诈的开发商会买下这一资产，然后再将其卖掉，并带着钱财离开矿镇。