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。

The Northern  Ndebele were closely related to the Zulu people, and had been forced out of the Transvaal by the  Dutch trek-boers in the 1830s.

北恩德贝勒人与祖鲁人关系密切，并在 1830 年代被荷兰徒步旅行者赶出德兰士瓦。

In 1870, King Lobengula had ascended to the throne, and  he had smartly exploited tensions between the Transvaal and the British Cape Colony  to secure himself.

1870 年， 洛本古拉国王即位，他巧妙地利用德兰士瓦和英国开普殖民地之间的紧张关系来保护自己。

Getting wind of these  rumblings of discontent, Rhodes, now 43 years old, saw it as the perfect opportunity to stamp British  authority onto the Transvaal once and for all.

现年 43 岁的罗兹听到这些不满的风声后，认为这是一劳永逸地在德兰士瓦打上英国权威的绝佳机会。

Extending the  franchise would mean political oblivion – and so the Transvaal President Paul Kruger denied  citizenship to the uitlanders, and heavily taxed their mining operations, particularly the sale  of dynamite.

扩大特许经营权意味着政治上的遗忘——因此德兰士瓦总统保罗·克鲁格拒绝给予新西兰人公民身份，并对他们的采矿作业，特别是炸药的销售课以重税。

The London  Convention of 1884 rewrote the relationship with the Transvaal Republic, keeping Stellaland and  Goshen firmly outside of Transvaal influence, securing the road northward for the British – in  return for scrapping imperial suzerainty over the Republic.

1884 年的伦敦公约改写了与德兰士瓦共和国的关系，将斯特拉兰和戈申牢牢排除在德兰士瓦的影响之外，确保了英国人向北的道路 — — 作为交换， 英国放弃了帝国对共和国的宗主权。

Since the establishment of the British  Protectorate over Bechuanaland, Rhodes had been very aware of the friendliness between  the Transvaal Republic and the Northern Ndbele people, also known as the Matabele.

自从英国在贝专纳兰建立保护国以来，罗德斯就非常清楚德兰士瓦共和国与北恩贝莱人（也称为马塔贝莱人）之间的友好关系。

Jameson's medical work  brought him into contact with a wide variety of the region's political figures, and he  counted both Paul Kruger, the President of the Transvaal Republic and King Lobengula of the  Ndebele people, among his patients.

詹姆森的医疗工作使他接触到了该地区各种各样的政治人物，他的病人中包括德兰士瓦共和国总统保罗·克鲁格和恩德贝勒人的洛本古拉国王。