Politically, the canal is a huge gamble.

从政治层面说 开运河就像一场豪赌。

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

水流开的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.

花了六个月的时间，他们才沙漠中开出一口井。

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

就是上面挖个洞，把炸药放进去，引爆之后开是吗？

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

700 年来，一代一代的人停开新井 连水道。

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了条奇迹般的山间公路。

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

先民的双手把玉开出来、捡拾起来，捧手心里，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.

政府和企业官员想要将大沼泽地变成农田，于是开水渠用以排干沼泽。

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, 煤层里开出巷道，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.

里有俗称坎儿井的地下水道系统，他们土鲁番开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 20 世纪 70 年代开墨西哥城地铁期间为人所知的。

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

从大清早开第一个洞算起，现我们已经2千米之外了。

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

他也曾开湖泊河道，治水筑堤。

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

他们的运作方式与那些开巴拿马运河的人完全一样。

They dug canals and built mountains.

他们开运河， 建山。

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

些新移民想要工作，愿意承担开运河的艰巨工作。

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

我们有一定程度的安全措施，我们自己的岩石开的围栏，我们自己的隐藏盆地。

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

它的防护墙直接从山坡上开出来，长七英里， 坚固了座巨大的城市。

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2千多年前，开了超过3千公里的地下水道，从远方高山引水过来。