The world had to wait almost another 100 years for the Channel Tunnel.

世界不得不再等将近100年才看到海峡隧道竣工。

President Clinton re-elected, Channel Tunnel completed, World Trade Center bombing or Cold War ended.

克林顿总统连任、英法海底隧道建成、世贸中心爆炸还是冷战结束。

People also arrive in the city on the Channel Tunnel, which links southern England with northern France.

人们还通过连接英国南部和法国北部的英吉利海峡隧道拜访这座城市。

But the French said the problems were caused by an unforeseen technical incident at the Channel Tunnel.

但法国方面表示，这些问题是由英吉利海峡隧道发生的一起意外技术事故造成的。

The channel tunnel was a very heavy influence, the loss of duty-free revenue really the final nail in the coffin.

英吉利海峡隧道也带来很大的影响，免税后损失的收入真的是最后的致命一击。

Some of the worst affected travellers are those who had hoped to take the Channel Tunnel rail service to France and Belgium.

受影响最为严重的是打算从法国经英吉利海峡隧道去往比利时的乘客。

Burj Khalifa, Large Hadron Collider, Channel Tunnel or International Space Station?

哈利法塔、大型强子对撞机、英吉利海峡隧道还是国际空间站？

Ten British and French companies combined to form the Channel Tunnel Group.

【combine】十家英国和法国公司联合起来组成了海峡隧道集团。

You see, eventually they figured out how tunnels worked and, in 1994, the Channel Tunnel was opened.

你看，最终他们弄清楚了隧道是如何工作的， 并且在 1994 年， 英吉利海峡隧道开通了。

Migrants in the French port of Calais have continued to try to enter the Channel Tunnel for a third successive night in an attempt to reach Britain.

法国加莱港的移民们继续进入海底隧道，这是他们试图抵达英国的连续第三个夜晚。

Today, the Channel Tunnel services over 20 million passengers a year, transporting riders across the channel in just 35 minutes.

如今， 英吉利海峡隧道每年为超过 2000 万名乘客提供服务，运送乘客仅需 35 分钟即可穿越英吉利海峡。

Eurotunnel says 2,000 migrants tried to break into its freight terminal in the French port of Calais in a desperate attempt to reach Britain through the channel tunnel.

欧洲隧道公司称2000名移民试图冲入法国加来港上的货运站，不顾一切地试图通过英伦海峡海底隧道进入英国。

With one estimate from the Discovery Channel claiming a price tag of 105 billion dollars or about five times the price of the Channel Tunnel between England and France.

据探索频道估计，该项目价值 1050 亿美元，约为英法海底隧道价格的五倍。

To put that into context, the UK built a high-speed rail line between London and the Channel Tunnel in the 2000s that's equivalent to 0.2% of China's current network.

相比之下，英国在21世纪初修建了一条连接伦敦和英吉利海峡隧道的高铁，里程相当于中国目前高铁网的0.2%。

Until 1994, when one of the 20th centuries greatest engineering achievements connected them, linking Folkestone in Southern England to Calais in Northern France the channel tunnel is the world's longest undersea tunnel.

直到1994年, 作为20世纪最伟大的工程之一，海峡隧道将它们连接了起来，从英格兰南部的福克斯通延伸到法国北部的加来，这条隧道是世界上最长的海底隧道。

And even though it spans the narrowest section between England and France at the Straight of Dover, the Channel Tunnel is still 31 miles long and it runs as deep as 250 feet.

尽管它横跨英、法两国之间最窄的多佛尔海峡，但隧道仍然有31英里长、250英尺深。