A study was made to decide which would be a better place for the canal -- Panama or Nicaragua.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
I didn't know whether it was that or Canal Street in New Orleans.
恍惚中仿佛来到了新奥尔良的运河大街。
but just to walk up and down like Canal Street, different streets like that,
到类似坚尼街的街上走走,
It also needed a canal across Central America so the Navy could sail quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
All this, of course, was fuelled by I mentioned it already--a transportation revolution symbolized by the Erie Canal, finished in 1825, which remained profitable all the way out into the 1880s.
当然,所有这些都是由于,我已经提过,1825开通的,伊利运河所带来的交通革命所导致的,这条运河直到十九世纪八十年代还在盈利
Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
But it is called, it's short for the "Triangle below the Canal".
但它被叫做,它是“运河下的三角区”的简称。
About twenty thousand ships pass through the Gulf of Aden each year on their way to the Suez Canal.
VOA: special.2009.05.27
Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
They would build a canal to carry them past the turn in the river, past the Confederate cannon.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
For years, shipbuilders limited the size of many ships so that they could fit through the Panama Canal.
VOA: special.2011.08.08
In eighteen fifty-five, the first canal connecting Lake Superior with Lake Huron was completed at Sault Ste.Marie,Michigan.
VOA: special.2009.11.11
The most likely place to build such a canal was at the thinnest point of land: Panama.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
His company failed. In the eighteen nineties, an American company tried to build a canal across Nicaragua.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
The Army Corps of Engineers has put an electric fence in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
VOA: special.2009.12.15
In nineteen fifty-six, he traveled to the Middle East to cover the war over the Suez Canal.
VOA: special.2009.11.01
And he proposed building a canal in central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
VOA: special.2010.08.05
In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
The glands in the ear canal that produce the wax make too much in some people.
VOA: special.2010.03.31
Some members of Congress questioned the administration's deal with the French canal company in Panama.
VOA: special.2010.08.19
"The present canal has a total capacity of about three hundred and forty million tons a year that it can handle, that's the maximum capacity.
VOA: special.2011.08.08
But De Lesseps' company still owned the land on which the canal would be built.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
Use a syringe device to gently direct water against the wall of the ear canal.
VOA: special.2010.03.31
He set up the Patowmack Company and started building the canal in seventeen eighty-five.
VOA: special.2011.04.29
You should never put a cotton swab or other object into the ear canal.
VOA: special.2010.03.31
With a canal across Central America, ships could sail directly from ocean to ocean.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
The study decided it would be less costly,overall, to build the canal in Nicaragua.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
One of them said: "As soon as the canals at Vicksburg are finished, we are going to cut a canal across the upper part of Florida.
VOA: special.2009.11.19
De Lesseps spent three hundred million dollars to build just one-third of the canal.
VOA: special.2010.08.12
These are some of the other recordings added to the National Recording Registry: A nineteen twenty-three recording of "Canal Street Blues" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
VOA: special.2010.07.09
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