The treaty gave the United States the right to build a canal across Panama.

该条约赋予美国在巴拿马修建运河的权利。

Over the years, several attempts were made to build the canal.

多年来，人们曾多次尝试修建这条运河。

It was blocked by the system of canals, embankments and wastewater drains built parallel to the river.

它被与河流平行的运河、堤防和污水排水渠系统所阻塞。

They build these three large canals and this expands the area of the city by four times.

他们凿建了三条巨大的运河使得城市面积扩大了四倍。

Government and business officials wanted to turn the Everglades into farmland and began building canals to drain the swamp.

政府和企业官员想要将大沼泽地变成农田，于是开凿水渠用以排干沼泽。

In addition to building the canal, engineers also built " aqueducts."

除了修建运河， 工程师们还修建了“渡槽” 。

Originally in the popular imagination we thought that the Mars might be inhabited by whole civilizations building canals and so on.

原来的想象力让我们认为火星上可能有整个文明，有人居住并且建立运河等等。

This accomplished, it was necessary to decide just where the canal should be built.

完成此任务后，有必要决定在何处修建运河。

He also built extensive canals and reservoir  systems for the fast-growing agricultural society.

他还为快速发展的农业社会修建了广泛的运河和水库系统。

Merchant ships are still going to be guaranteed free and unrestricted access to the Bosphorus even after the canal is built.

即使在运河建成后，仍能保证商船自由且不受限制地进入博斯普鲁斯海峡。

People think the ancient Egyptians first built a canal there nearly four-thousand years ago.

人们认为古埃及人在近四千年前首先在那里修建了一条运河。

In the 19th century, when depression hit Manchester, its leaders opted to build the world's largest ship canal to attract more trade.

在19世纪，曼彻斯特经济很不景气，当地政府开掘了世上最大的运河吸引贸易。

Together these inventions drastically reduced the cost of blasting rock, drilling tunnels, building canals and many other forms of construction work.

这些发明一起大大降低了爆破岩石、钻隧道、修建运河和许多其他形式的建筑工作的成本。

Colombia decided to give permission to a French company to build a canal through the area of Panama.

哥伦比亚决定允许一家法国公司修建一条穿过巴拿马地区的运河。

The study decided it would be less costly, overall, to build the canal in Nicaragua. The proposal went to the United States Congress for approval.

这项研究认为，总体而言，在尼加拉瓜修建这条运河的成本更低，这项提议提交美国国会批准。

Nevertheless, a lot of people gave the company money to build this canal, and in 1881, de Lesseps's company began to build the canal.

尽管如此，还是有很多人给公司出钱修建了这条运河，1881年， de Lesseps的公司开始修建这条运河。

So, the committee decided it would be less costly, overall, to build a canal in Nicaragua. The proposal went to the United States Congress for approval.

因此，委员会决定，总体而言，在尼加拉瓜修建运河的成本较低。委员会将这项提议提交美国国会批准。

The United States had been considering building a canal through Nicaragua, but at this point, the chance to succeed where France failed was tempting.

美国一直在考虑修建一条穿过尼加拉瓜的运河，但在这一点上， 在法国失败的地方取得成功的机会很诱人。

The most likely place to build such a canal was at the thinnest point of land: Panama. Another possible place was just to the north: Nicaragua.

巴拿马。另一个可能的地点是在北边：尼加拉瓜。

One problem was that they did not do a very good survey, or analysis of the land, where the canal was supposed to be built.

一个问题是他们没有对应该建造运河的土地进行很好的调查或分析。