Over a period of decades, that system of highways was constructed and became known as the pan-American highway.

在几十年的时间里，这个高速公路系统被建造出来，并被称为泛美公路。

But that isn't to say that building a road through the Gap and finally finishing the Pan-American Highway would be impossible.

但这并不是说修建一条穿越地堑的公路并最终完成泛美公路是不可能的事情。

It's not clear what caused the blast on the pan-American highway in the Cauca district, one of the country's most violent regions.

目前还不清楚是什么原因导致考卡地区泛美高速公路发生爆炸，该地区也是暴力活动最多的地区之一。

And for those reasons, rather than for any technical reasons, the Pan-American highway is likely to remain unfinished for the foreseeable future and it will remain impossible to drive between North and South America.

出于这些原因，而不是任何技术原因，在可预见的未来，泛美高速公路很可能仍是未完工状态，仍然不可能在北美和南美之间驾车行驶。

The United States has pretty much no incentive to help build a highway through the Darien Gap that would otherwise finish the Pan-American highway, but would also make it dramatically easier for migrants to travel to the United States.

美国几乎没有任何动力帮助修建一条穿过达连地堑的高速公路，否则这条公路将完成泛美高速公路，但也将大大方便移民前往美国。

We were in the middle of a great wilderness that forms one of the only two gaps in the Pan-American highway, between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Cape Horn.

我们正处于一片大荒野之中，这是泛美高速公路上仅有的两个缺口之一，位于费尔班克斯、阿拉斯加和合恩角之间。

One idea is to simply extend the already existing pan-American highway from Yaviza in Panama out to the Caribbean coast through the less delicate ecosystems and establish a ferry link with a row network over in Colombia.

一种观点是，直接将现有的泛美公路从巴拿马的亚维萨通过不那么脆弱的生态系统延伸到加勒比海岸，并在哥伦比亚建立一个轮渡网络。