Therefore, the canal system is considered the largest contiguous canal system anywhere in the world.

因此，该运河系统被认为是世界上最大的连片运河系统。

The work on the canal system has been suspended while the government committee makes its decision.

在这家政府委员会做决定期间，运河系统的工程已经暂停。

The sea lamprey actually swam or hitched a ride into the Great Lakes through the canal system.

七鳃鳗实际上是通过运河系统游泳或搭便车进入五大湖的。

Over an area of more than 900,000 square kilometers, its people built massive administrative centers, temples, and extensive road and canal systems.

领土面积超过90万平方公里，这个帝国的人民建造了庞大的行政中心和庙宇，以及四通八达的道路和运河系统。

A prolonged drought in Central America attributed to El Nino weather phenomenon has reduced water levels on lake Gatun, which feeds the canal system of locks.

中美洲长期干旱归因于厄尔尼诺天气现象，导致加顿湖水位下降，这是水闸运河系统的水源。

Imagine the extravagant balls that were once held here and see where Tsar Peter planned the graceful canal system that spreads throughout the city’s many islands.

想像曾经悬挂在此的奢华球形吊饰看彼得大帝曾在此规划典雅的水道系统流经城内的众多小岛。

By 1947, at the end of British rule the canal system had grown into a large network that turned roughly 26 million acres of land in the basin into farmland.

到 1947 年，英国统治结束时，运河系统已经发展成为一个庞大的网络，将盆地中大约 2600 万英亩的土地变成了农田。

And key to this canal systems design were barrages: Dam like infrastructure that raised the river's upstream water level so that water can be funneled into canals with gates that open and close depending on water supply and demand.

这种运河系统设计的关键是堤坝：像水坝一样的基础设施，可以提高河流上游的水位，这样水就可以流入运河，闸门可以根据水的供应和需求打开和关闭。