Politically, the canal is a huge gamble.

从治层面说 开凿运河就像一场豪赌。

The passages are cut so that the water continually runs slightly downhill.

水流在开凿水道中缓缓沿着下坡流动。

Over 3,500 stone steps were carved into the rock face.

当地人沿着石壁开凿了超过三千五百级台阶。

It's taken them six months to carve out a shaft through the desert rock.

花了六个月，他们才在沙漠中开凿出一口井。

There is a hole in it, put explosives in, blow it and move forward?

就是在上面挖个洞，把炸药放进去，引爆之后开凿是吗？

Every generation for the last 700 years has been digging new wells and connecting them up.

700 年来，一代一代人在这不停开凿新井 连通水道。

In the 1950s, Chinese people, with sweat, blood and even lives, built this miraculous mountain road.

十世纪50年代中国人用鲜血和生命开凿修通了这条奇迹般山公路。

Our ancestors dug it up, holding in their bare hands as substance already rich in history.

先民双手把玉开凿出来、捡拾起来，捧在手心里，它们已然是历史悠久之物。

Government and business officials wanted to turn the Everglades into farmland and began building canals to drain the swamp.

和企业官员想要将大沼泽地变成农田，于是开凿水渠用以排干沼泽。

From the bottom of the shaft the miners cut low passages through the seams, and dig out the coal.

矿工们从矿井底部, 在煤层里开凿出巷道，把煤挖出来。

A subterranean network of canals known as karez is used to channel water around Turpan streets and into raving yards.

这里有俗称坎儿井地下水道系统，他们在土鲁番开凿水道引水灌溉葡萄园。

Thousands of Aztec artifacts came to light during the digging of the Mexico City subway in the 1970s.

上千件阿芝特克手工艺品则是在 20 世纪 70 年代开凿墨西哥城地铁期为人所知。

We now have travelled around two kilometres from the first hole we dug in the early hours of this morning.

从大清早开凿第一个洞算起，现在我们已经在2千米之外了。

He opened up lakes and canals, fought floods, built dams.

他也曾开凿湖泊河道，治水筑堤。

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

他们运作方式与那些开凿巴拿马运河人完全一样。

They dug canals and built mountains.

他们开凿运河， 建山。

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，愿意承担开凿运河艰巨工作。

We have a measure of security, our own sietch carved out of the rock, our own hidden basins.

我们有一定程度安全措施，我们自己岩石开凿围栏，我们自己隐藏盆地。

Its protective wall, carved right out of the hillside, was seven miles long, fortifying what was a huge city.

它防护墙直接从山坡上开凿出来，长七英里， 坚固了这座巨大城市。

Over 2 millennia ago, local people carved more than 3000km of these canals beneath the desert, diverting water from the distant mountains.

当地人在2千多年前，开凿了超过3千公里地下水道，从远方高山引水过来。