Politically, the canal is a huge gamble.

从政治层面说 凿运河就像一场豪赌。

They dug canals and built mountains.

他们凿运河， 建。

These new immigrants wanted jobs and were willing to take on the difficult work of digging the canal.

这些新移民想要工作，愿意承担凿运河的艰巨工作。

If they dug up canals, cleared forests and built cities, their traces would be very hard to  distinguish from nature.

如果他们凿运河、砍伐森林、建造城市，他们的痕迹将很难与自然区分。

They operate precisely as did those who dug the Panama Canal.

他们的运作方式与那些凿巴拿马运河的人完全一。

He insisted on digging the canal at sea level, even though it required boring directly through the Continental Divide mountain range.

他坚持在海平面凿运河，尽管这需要直接穿过陆分脉。

With this innovative plan, the Americans didn't need to excavate the entire mountain, but rather, just the pathway for the canal itself.

有了这个创新的计划，美国人不需要挖整座，而只需要凿运河本身的通道。

Stalin's plan was to have his engineers divert water from both of these rivers by digging canals towards new fields that would be planted across Uzbekistan.

斯林的计划是让他的工程师们凿运河，改变这两条河流的走向，将其引入乌兹别克斯坦的新种植土地。

" Every 100 minutes, the Louisiana wetlands is losing an area as big as a football field due to canalling, levee building and rising sea level."

每100分钟，路易斯安那州就会失去一个足球场那么面积的湿地，原因是凿运河、修建堤坝和海平面上升。

They brought thousands of free and enslaved workers to live in the Swamp and made them harvest wood, excavate canals, and drain fields.

他们把成千上万的自由和被奴役的工人带到沼泽地生活， 让他们砍伐木材、凿运河和排田。

Officials say more traffic will now be able to pass through the link, which opened in 1869 to join the Mediterranean with the Red Sea.

官方称目前运河可以允许更多船只通行，1869年为连接地中海和红海凿了苏伊士运河。

A study was made to decide which would be a better place for the canal -- Panama or Nicaragua. Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

一项研究决定了哪个地方更适合修建这条运河，巴拿马还是尼加拉瓜。工程师们表示，20年前在巴拿马凿这条莱塞普斯运河将花费更少。