But isn't that isthmus only composed of quicksand?

那么，这地峡只是由松动的沙土形成的吗？

To move goods between Asia and the Mediterranean basin, traders had to traverse the narrow isthmus separating the Red Sea and the Nile, journeying in camel-bound caravans through the unforgiving desert.

在亚洲和地中海盆地间运输货物，商人不得不穿越分隔红海和尼罗河的狭窄的地峡，骑着骆驼的大篷车上穿过无情的沙漠。

The very narrow isthmus of Panama presented a unique opportunity for mankind to build a shortcut by carving a Canal across just a bit more than 50 kilometers worth of land that separated the two oceans here.

巴拿马非常狭窄的地峡为人类提供了个独特的机会，通过在仅 50 多公里的土地上条运河来修建条捷径，这条运河将这里的两大洋分隔开。

The strip of land, known as the Isthmus of Panama, was formed about 3.5 million years ago.

巴拿马地峡形成于350万年前。

For thousands of years now people have been walking across the Isthmus of Panama between the two halves of America.

几千年来，人们步行穿过南北美洲两部分间的巴拿马地峡。

Yes, last night, in a matter of minutes, we cleared that insuperable isthmus.

对，就是昨夜，几分钟内，我们便走过了这不能走过的地峡。

This is by far the biggest city that New Zealand has got strategically located along in Isthmus with good natural harbors to the North and the South and placed over a dormant volcanic field with fairly fertile soils.

这是新西兰迄今为止最大的城市，地理位置优越，地峡沿岸有南北天然良港，位于休眠火山地带，土壤相当肥沃。

On February 6 the Nautilus cruised in sight of the city of Aden, perched on a promontory connected to the continent by a narrow isthmus, a sort of inaccessible Gibraltar whose fortifications the English rebuilt after capturing it in 1839.

2月6日，诺第留斯号浮水面，远远看见亚丁港，港筑在海呷上，条很窄的地峡把它跟大陆连接起来。

But they are technically connected by land to one another across the narrow Isthmus of Panama.

但严格来，它们是通过陆地上狭窄的巴拿马地峡相互连接的。

Today,nearly 14,000 vessels travel through the isthmus annually— each in under 12 hours.

如今，每年有将近 14,000 艘船只穿越地峡——每艘船只的航行时间都在 12 小时以内。

So Corinth, located on the Gulf of Corinth, occupies a really important strategic place because it's where the Gulf of Corinth is by a small land bridge separating it from the Ionian Sea.

因此，位于科林斯湾的科林斯占据了个极为重要的战略位置，因为它地处科林斯湾与伊奥尼亚海间，由道狭窄的地峡分隔开来。

It was the sacred thirst of gold that carried Ovieda, Nicuessa, and Vasco Nugnes de Balboa, to the Isthmus of Darien; that carried Cortes to Mexico, Almagro and Pizarro to Chili and Peru.

正是对黄金的神圣渴求，将奥维达、尼库萨和瓦斯科·努格内斯·德·巴尔博亚带到了达里安地峡；它将科尔特斯带到了墨西哥，将阿尔马格罗和皮萨罗带到了智利和秘鲁。

As the isthmus was then a part of Colombia, President Roosevelt proceeded to negotiate with the government at Bogota a treaty authorizing the United States to cut a canal through its territory.

由于地峡当时是哥伦比亚的部分，罗斯福总统着手与波哥大政府谈判项条约， 授权美国在其领土上开辟条运河。

Other importations were made, from time to time, by way of the Isthmus, and, though great pains were taken to insure success, about one half usually died on the way.

其他输入，不时地，通过地峡，虽然付了巨大的努力以确保成功，但大约有半通常在途中死亡。

It had made its way from the south, crossing the still-forming Isthmus of Panama and onto the coastal plains of Texas and then Florida.

它从南方而来，穿越仍在形成的巴拿马地峡，到达得克萨斯的沿海平原，然后是佛罗里达。

The museum's eight galleries celebrate the history of the Central America Isthmus, as one of the world's richest deco systems. BBC News.

博物馆的八个展厅展示了中美洲地峡的历史，它是世界上最丰富的装饰系统。英国广播公司的新闻。

Strauss chose the fastest route, across the Isthmus of Panama.

施特劳斯选择了最快的路线，穿过巴拿马地峡。

He couldn't assume now that he could capture the town when the treasure arrived from over the Isthmus.

他现在不能假定，当宝藏从地峡运来时，他就能占领这座城镇。

The latter desert separated advanced human societies of Mesoamerica from those of North America, while the isthmus separated advanced societies of Mesoamerica from those of the Andes and Amazonia.

后者将中美洲的先进人类社会与北美的人类社会分开，而地峡将中美洲的先进社会与安第斯山脉和亚马逊地区的人类社会分开。

On January 16, 1939, Matthew W. Sterling took an early morning walk through the wet, buggy forest of Veracruz State, on the Gulf Coast side of Mexico's southern Isthmus.

1939 年 1 月 16 日，马修·斯特林 （Matthew W. Sterling） 清晨在墨西哥南部地峡墨西哥湾沿岸侧的韦拉克鲁斯州潮湿的越野车森林中散步。