Politically, the canal is a huge gamble.

从政治层面说 开凿运河就像一场豪赌。

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年前在巴拿马开凿这条莱塞普斯运河将花费更少。

" 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，路斯安那州就会失去一个足球场那么面积湿地，因是开凿运河、修建堤坝和海平面上升。

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.

斯计划是让他工程师们开凿运河，改变这两条河流走向，将其引入乌兹别克斯坦新种植土地。

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开凿了苏伊士运河。

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

他们把成千上万自由和被奴役工人带到沼泽地生活， 让他们砍伐木材、开凿运河和排水田。

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

他坚持在海平面开凿运河，尽管这需要直接穿过陆分水岭山脉。

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

有了这个创新计划，美国人不需要开挖整座山，而只需要开凿运河本身通道。

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。

They dug canals and built mountains.

他们开凿运河， 建山。