The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

苏伊士运河连接了地中海到红海和印度洋。

Lions and elephants could even reach Europe, the strongest swimming across the Suez Canal.

狮子和大象甚到达欧洲，最强壮的狮子和大象游过苏伊士运河。

But in the Suez Canal, it was a global crisis.

但在苏伊士运河，这引发了一场全球危机。

Unfortunately, though, these new secondary channels weren't constructed along the entire Suez Canal's length.

然而不凑巧，这些新的二级航道并没有沿着整条苏伊士运河的长度建造。

I'm Carl Azuz and we're starting in the Suez Canal.

我是卡尔·祖兹，我们首先来苏伊士运河。

In Egypt remittances are three times the size of revenues from the Suez Canal.

埃及收到的移民汇款达到苏伊士运河上贸易额的三倍。

Egypt announced plans for an extension of the Suez Canal last month with much fanfare.

上个月，埃及高调宣布苏伊士运河的扩建计划。

Two major shipping freight firms say they will avoid the Suez Canal.

两家主要的货运公司表示将避开苏伊士运河。

Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser then seized control of the company that operated the Suez Canal.

随后，埃及总统贾·卜杜·纳赛尔接管了运营苏伊士运河的公司。

Egypt's Suez Canal's been blocked by a giant container ship that ran aground in windy conditions.

埃及的苏伊士运河因一艘在大风中搁浅的巨型集装箱船而受阻。

For comparison, the Suez Canal is nearly 200 kilometers long.

相比之下，苏伊士运河长近 200 公里。

The ship's owners and the Suez Canal authority are in dispute over compensation for the incident.

船东和苏伊士运河管理局就事件的赔偿问题存在分歧。

Of late, he has compared his state's planned high-speed train to the Panama and Suez canals.

最近，Brown把修建高铁的计划比作同修建巴拿马及苏伊士运河一样重要势在必行。

The Suez Canal was first opened in 1869, or at least the Suez Canal as we know it today.

苏伊士运河于1869年首次通航，或者少是我们今天所知道的苏伊士运河。

It wasn't too long ago that we showed you a cargo ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal.

就在不久前，我们向大家展示了一艘被困在苏伊士运河的货船。

A huge cargo ship got wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal today, blocking the flow of global trade.

今天，一艘巨型货船在埃及苏伊士运河卡住了，阻碍了全球贸易的流通。

Remind us why the Suez Canal is so important. What kinds of things are these ships carrying?

请说明一下为何苏伊士运河如此重要。这些船只运载的是什么物品？

Meanwhile, Britain has just opened its first military base east of the Suez Canal since 1971 in Bahrain.

与此同时，自1971年来，英国也在巴林岛建造了其第一个军事基地，就在苏伊士运河东部。

But the ship's crew can't steer it through the Suez Canal carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil.

但船员无法驾驶这艘载有200万桶原油的油轮通过苏伊士运河。

A tanker transporting crude oil has broken down in Egypt's Suez Canal, disrupting traffic in the global waterway.

一艘运输原油的油轮在埃及苏伊士运河发生故障，全球贸易航道被扰乱。