The Suez crisis was a political victory for the Soviets.

苏伊士运河危机是苏联政治上的胜利。

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，或者至少是我们今天所知道的苏伊士运河。

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

苏伊士运河连接地中海到红海和印度洋。

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

相比之下，苏伊士运河长近 200 公里。

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

我是卡尔·阿祖兹，我们首先来看苏伊士运河。

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

上个，埃及高调宣布苏伊士运河的扩计划。

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。

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

但在苏伊士运河，引发一场全球危机。

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。

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

狮子和大象甚至可以到达欧洲，最强壮的狮子和大象可以游过苏伊士运河。

But it soon became clear this wasn't going to be like the Suez situation at all.

但很快就清楚，本不会像苏伊士运河事件那样。

The Suez Canal represented the quickest possible way for British to reach India from the home island.

苏伊士运河是英国人从本土到达印度的最快途径。

Moreover, the Suez Crisis, which I mentioned earlier was in full swing just then.

此外，正如我早先提到的，苏伊士运河危机当时也在轰轰烈烈地进行。

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

但船员无法驾驶艘载有200万桶原油的油轮通过苏伊士运河。

An official claimed the offending stamp was a fake aimed at damaging the Canal project.

一官位员称，张引起民众反感的邮票是有人蓄意破坏苏伊士运河工程而发出的假邮票。

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。些船只运载的是什么物品？

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。

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

最近，Brown把修高铁的计划比作同修巴拿马及苏伊士运河一样重要势在必行。

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

随后，埃及总统贾迈勒·阿卜杜勒·纳赛尔接管运营苏伊士运河的公司。

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。