Jameson failed to cut the north-bound telegraph  wires to the Transvaal capital at Pretoria.

詹姆森未能切断通往德兰士瓦首府比勒陀利亚的北行电报线。

The discovery of gold brought thousands of people to the Transvaal.

【bring】由于发现了金子，成千上万人涌向德兰士瓦。

Gold was discovered in Witwatersrand in the  Transvaal Republic in 1886, and Rhodes was quick to capitalize on the discovery.

1886 年，人们在德兰士瓦共和国的威特沃特斯兰德发现了黄金，罗德岛很快就利用了这一发现。

These were: the  Orange Free State, centered around the Orange River, and the Transvaal Republic, beyond the  River Vaal.

它们是：以奥兰治河为中心的奥兰治自由邦，以及瓦尔河以外的德兰士瓦共和国。

Their presence in the Republic, without  citizenship and barely tolerated by the Transvaal authorities, would become a major flashpoint  in the near future.

他们在共和国的存在， 没有公民身份， 而且德兰士瓦当局几乎无法容忍，将在不久的将来成为一个主要的爆发点。

But his ambitions would come to a crashing halt over the issue of  the Transvaal, and the disastrous Jameson Raid.

但他的雄心壮志因德兰士瓦问题和灾难性的詹姆森袭击而戛然而止。

Both Jan Hofmeyr and John Merriman  judged that a raid into this territory risked both destabilizing the indigenous politics of the  region and angering the Transvaal Republic.

扬·霍夫梅尔和约翰·梅里曼都认为，对这片领土的袭击可能会破坏该地区原住民政治的稳定，并激怒德兰士瓦共和国。

The large community of gold-mining uitlanders  posed a serious political problem for the Transvaal government: the 60,000-strong  ex-patriot community outnumbered the 30,000 Boers by two-to-one.

庞大的英国金矿开采者社区给德兰士瓦政府带来了严重的政治问题：6 万名前爱国者社区与 3 万名布尔人的人数之比为二比一。

We have seen the  Transvaal actively oppose the Cape Colony, first over Confederation, then over the road  into the interior, as well as over indigenous policy.

我们看到德兰士瓦积极反对开普殖民地，首先是联邦， 然后是通往内陆的道路，以及土著政策。

British attempts to impose suzerainty on the  Transvaal Republic resulted in the First Boer War, during which British Colonial authorities were  comprehensively expelled from their occupation.

英国试图对德兰士瓦共和国实行宗主权， 导致了第一次布尔战争，在此期间英国殖民当局被全面驱逐出其占领地。