black gold: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    Global Englishinformal
    • Crude oil or petroleum, regarded as an extremely valuable natural resource.

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    • The Middle East is known for its abundant reserves of black gold.

      The Middle East is known for its abundant reserves of crude oil.

    • Black gold prices have a huge impact on the global economy.

      Crude oil prices have a huge impact on the global economy.

    • Many countries depend heavily on black gold exports for their revenue.

      Many countries depend heavily on crude oil exports for their revenue.

    • The pipeline transports black gold across the continent efficiently.

      The pipeline transports crude oil across the continent efficiently.

  • 2.

    Global Englishinformal
    • Any dark-colored natural resource or commodity of high economic value, such as coal or certain fertile soils.

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    • Coal is often called black gold because of its economic value and dark color.

      Coal is called black gold because it is a dark-colored natural resource of high economic value.

    • Farmers prize certain dark soils as black gold for their fertility.

      Farmers value certain dark-colored fertile soils as black gold.

    • The region’s black gold resources include coal and other valuable minerals.

      The region’s valuable dark-colored natural resources include coal and other minerals.

  • 3.

    Global Englishliteraryneutral
    • A metaphor for something highly valuable that is dark in color or derived from dark material, applied broadly and rhetorically (for example, to coffee, rich soil, or reclaimed fuels).

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    • Coffee is sometimes called black gold because of its value and rich color.

      Coffee is metaphorically called black gold because it is highly valuable and dark in color.

    • The company markets its reclaimed fuels as eco-friendly black gold.

      The company markets its reclaimed dark-colored fuels metaphorically as black gold.

    • The farmers referred to the rich, dark compost as their black gold for improving crops.

      The farmers referred to the valuable dark organic soil as their black gold for improving crops.

Examples:

  • EN: Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea.
    ES: Oro negro. Té de Texas. Todas:
  • EN: "Wheat fields, you are our black gold."
    ES: "Campos de trigo, sois nuestro oro negro."
  • EN: He turns waste into black gold, oil and gasoline.
    ES: Convierte la basura en oro negro, aceite y gasooline.
  • EN: This is rugged country. Land of black gold.
    ES: Es un terreno accidentado, tierra de oro negro.
  • EN: Jug, you've struck oil, black gold!
    ES: ¿Cómo vamos a parar esto? ¿Pararlo?
  • EN: And more important, there's also oil, 213,000,000 barrels a year of it, black gold flowing from the Earth that contains 55% of the world's oil.
    ES: Lo más importante, también hay petróleo. 213 millones de barriles al año. Oro negro que nace de la tierra que contiene el 55 por ciento del petróleo del mundo.
  • EN: Jug, you've struck oil, black gold!
    ES: ¿Cómo vamos a parar esto? ¿Pararlo?
  • EN: And more important, there's also oil, 213,000,000 barrels a year of it, black gold flowing from the Earth that contains 55% of the world's oil.
    ES: Lo más importante, también hay petróleo. 213 millones de barriles al año. Oro negro que nace de la tierra que contiene el 55 por ciento del petróleo del mundo.
  • EN: Their aim... to conquer the Sudan and stop General Gordon's attempt to stamp out the age-old trade in black gold - slaves.
    ES: Su objetivo... Conquistar Sudán y detener los intentos del General Gordon... de erradicar el comercio ancestral de un verdadero oro negro: los esclavos.
  • EN: The coal miners of Wales have long been famed for their tough, rugged life, hewing the black gold from the uncompromising hell of one mile under.
    ES: Los mineros de carbón de Gales son conocidos por la vida tosca y sacrificada de quienes extraen el oro negro de las entrañas infernales de la Tierra.
  • EN: 'What he produces for himself is the wage, 'whilst the MG, black gold and the Hilton 'dwindle to a precise quantity of essentials, 'whether a bicycle, two gallons of petrol, ten cigarettes
    ES: Lo que produce para él es el sueldo. Mientras, el Morris Garages, el oro negro y el Hilton... se reducen a algunas cosas básicas... la bicicleta, diez litros de gasolina... diez cigarrillos o un piso de protección oficial.
  • EN: A hundred million dollars in black gold underneath that earth.
    ES: Cien millones de dólares en oro negro debajo de esa tierra.
  • EN: Without this black gold, I might as well close up shop.
    ES: Sin este oro negro, valdría más que cerrara la oficina.
  • EN: Cascara had a little black gold?
    ES: ¿Qué?
  • EN: - Cascara had a little black gold - Oil?
    ES: - ¿Petróleo?
  • EN: In 1910, in the southwest corner of Kern County, god spoke in a gusher of black gold.
    ES: En 1910, en el suroeste del condado de Kern. El Señor nos habló por medio de un pozo de petróleo.
  • EN: Oil that is Well, maybe you call it black gold or Texas tea
    ES: Petróleo, vaya. A lo mejor tú lo conoces por "oro negro" o "té de Tejas"

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