A lode is a band of rock that holds metal — gold, silver, copper — sitting in a layer between other stone. Miners follow a lode through the ground. Vein is the other everyday word for that band.

A lodelode(礦脈) is a band of rock that holds metal是一條含有金屬的岩層 — gold, silver, copper ———金、銀、銅—— sitting in a layer between other stone夾在其他石頭中間的一層。 Miners follow a lode through the ground礦工會沿著lode在地底下挖掘前進。 Vein is the other everyday word for that bandvein(礦脈)是描述那條帶狀岩層的另一個日常用詞。

Though actually lode and load began as the same old English word, about a way or a course. Load went off to mean something you carry. Lode kept a narrower life: mining, an old dialect sense “watercourse,” and the compounds lodestone and lodestar.

Though actually lode and load began as the same old English word不過其實，lode和load最早是同一個古英文字, about a way or a course，意思跟一條路或一段路程有關。 Load went off to mean something you carryload後來變成專指「你搬運的東西」。 Lode kept a narrower lifelode則保留了比較窄的用法: mining, an old dialect sense "watercourse,"：礦業、一個古老方言裡的「水道」意思 and the compounds lodestone and lodestar還有lodestone(天然磁石)和lodestar(北極星)這兩個複合字。

The famous stretch is mother lode: the main rich vein, and then, loosely, a great source of something. In a geography or history text, stay with the metal in the rock.

The famous stretch is mother lode最有名的說法是mother lode: the main rich vein：主要而豐富的那條礦脈, and then, loosely, a great source of something，後來也鬆散地用來指「大量的來源」。 In a geography or history text在地理或歷史的文章裡, stay with the metal in the rock，就照岩石裡的金屬那個意思理解就好。