Sometimes they will even dig canals to give themselves a safe water route to food sources.

有时它们甚至会挖掘隧道，来获得通向食物来源的安全水道。

Americans continued as in colonial times to depend wherever possible on water routes for travel and transportation.

在殖民时期，不管是旅行还是出行，美国人依旧依赖于水路。

Transportation along this water route was very important and still is today.

这条水路的交通非常重要，今天仍然如此。

To the railways were added the water routes of the Lakes, thus creating a strategic center for industries.

除了铁路之外， 还增加了湖泊的水路，从而创造了工业的战略中心。

Features that were important for economic development historically, like, you know, for example, like, water routes for trade, those have an impact on where cities form.

历史上对经济发展很重要的特征，比如贸易的水路，这些都会对城市的形成产生影响。

He even opened communications with Germany and Japan  about using Nicaragua's water routes for a canal, which only increased hostilities between Nicaragua  and the United States.

他甚至与德国和日本建立联系，商讨利用尼加拉瓜水路修建运河，这只会加剧尼加拉瓜和美国之间的敌对情绪。

The idea of a water route across the isthmus, long a dream of navigators, had become a living issue after the historic voyage of the battleship Oregon around South America during the Spanish War.

横跨地峡的水道想法成为了航海家长期以来的梦想，现在已经成为一个现实的问题。