But the Saudi landscape is already dotted with failed or abandoned megaprojects.

但沙特的土地上已经布满了失败或被遗弃的大型项目。

Which is exactly what this new multinational megaproject plans to do.

这正是这个新的跨国大型项目计划要做的。

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam sits alongside Nigeria's Eko Atlantic and Egypt's USD $58BN new capital as one of Africa's most impressive megaprojects.

埃塞俄比亚的文艺复兴大坝建设在尼日利亚的大西洋新城和埃及耗资 580 亿建成的新首都之间，是非洲最震撼的超大工程之一。

Even the Germans get megaprojects wrong.

即使是德国人也搞错了大型项目。

Still, the fallout from the Amazon deal may be having an impact on how the city approaches megaprojects in the future.

不过，亚马逊交易留下的阴影可能会对该市未来处理大型项目的方式产生影响。

Flyvbjerg is an economic geographer who years ago became fascinated with infrastructure megaprojects.

Flyvbjerg 是一位经济地理学家，多年前就对大型基础设施项目着迷。

Quite frankly, most of these megaprojects are being started by people that never end them.

坦率地说，大多数大型项目都是由那些永无休止的人开始的。

With the new line set to open in 2027, plans are already underway for an extension to link Nagoya with Osaka — a USD $30.5BN megaproject in itself.

预计新干线将于 2027 年通车，而名古屋与大阪之间的连接扩展计划也已经在筹备中，这也是一项价值 305 亿美元的项目。

As part of this Victorian megaproject, the Fleet river, by then little more than an open drain, was encased in cement and lost to public view.

舰队河作为这项维多利亚时代巨型工程的一部分，当时还只是一个露天排水沟，它被用水泥包裹起来，从公众视野中消失了。

And this is all exactly what Turkey is planning on doing with their Istanbul Canal megaproject which just began construction a few months ago back in March of 2021.

这正是土耳其计划对伊斯坦布尔运河大型项目所做的一切规划，该项目几个月前刚于 2021 年 3 月开始建设。