Diggings are a place where people are digging holes in the ground, usually to look for gold, coal, or something buried. You hear it in history and in stories about mines and gold rushes: the diggings as a patch of land full of holes, tents, and hard work. The word is almost always plural in this meaning. It feels a little old-fashioned now; a news report would more often say the mine or the excavation site. Though actually, there is an older British slang path too, where diggings — more often shortened to digs — means the room you rent, your lodgings. That is a different, informal use. The meaning filed here is the holes-in-the-ground place.

採掘場、淘金／挖礦的工地（通常用複數 the diggings）