Translation for "gold-field" to spanish

Gold-field

noun

• campo de oro

Translation examples

campo de oro noun

“I was referring to the wife he got saddled with on the gold fields.”
—Me refería a la esposa con la que terminó cargando en los campos de oro.

Wanupingu worked with me for a while on the Kalgoolie gold fields.
—Eso es —dijo él con cautela—. Wanupingu trabajó para mí un tiempo en los campos de oro de Kalgoolie.

Yes, on the Isle of Man and in Cornwall, but he came to Australia to try his luck on the Ballarat gold fields.
—Sí, en la isla de Man y en Cornwall, pero vino a Australia a probar suerte en los campos de oro de Ballarat.

As Carlotta and Edgar had been married by a priest somewhere on the gold fields, she doubted that their marriage had made it into any register.
Como los había casado un sacerdote de los campos de oro, dudaba mucho de que su matrimonio constara en ningún registro.

He was set in his ways and nearing sixty years of age when he’d met Carlotta and her family on the gold fields.
Cuando había conocido a Carlotta y a su familia en los campos de oro, ya estaba habituado a su vida solitaria y frisaba los sesenta.

They had been promised support by their countrymen on the Witwatersrand gold fields which never materialized, and the tiny band of aggressors capitulated to the Boers without firing a shot.
Se les había prometido el apoyo de sus compatriotas de los campos de oro de Witwaterstrand, que nunca se materializó, y la minúscula banda de agresores capituló ante los bóers sin disparar ni un tiro.

“Sì,” she snapped. She’d had little choice but to learn, since her father disapproved of his daughters having too much free time on their hands when they were camped on the Ballarat gold fields.
—Sí. —No le había quedado otro remedio que aprender, pues a su padre no le gustaba que ella y sus hermanas estuvieran desocupadas cuando vivían en los campos de oro de Ballarat.

He came to Australia with the idea of trying his luck on the gold fields. It was while there that he saw an advert in a newspaper for the job of assistant keeper at Cape du Couedic.
Vino a Australia para probar suerte en los campos de oro y, estando allí, vio un anuncio en el periódico para el puesto de ayudante en el faro de Cape du Couedic.

He appeared to have plenty of money, which was said to have been gained in the California gold fields, and it was clear from his own talk and that of his wife that he had spent a part of his life in America.
Parecía disponer de dinero en abundancia, y se decía que lo había ganado en los campos de oro de California, siendo evidente, a juzgar por lo que él decía y por las palabras de su esposa, que habían pasado una parte de su vida en Norteamérica.

However, the raid presaged the conflict between Boer and Briton that, only a few years later, would cost hundreds of thousands of lives, before the Transvaal and its fabulously rich gold fields came under the sway of Empire.
Sin embargo, la incursión prefiguró el conflicto entre bóers y británicos que, pocos años después, costaría cientos de miles de vidas, y dejaría al Transvaal y sus fabulosamente ricos campos de oro bajo la égida del imperio.