A telegraph signal from President Woodrow Wilson triggered a dike explosion, flooding the Culebra Cut and joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

伍德罗·威尔逊总统发出的电报信号引发了堤坝爆炸，淹没了库莱布拉海峡并汇入大西洋和太平洋。

Even after progress made by the French, it took over nine years for 24,000 workers to blow up,shovel,and drill out the Culebra Cut— a roughly 14 kilometer passageway through the Continental Divide.

即使在法国人取得进展之后，24, 000 名工人也花了 9 年多的时间才炸毁、铲土和钻探 Culebra Cut——一条穿过大陆分水岭的大约 14 公里的通道。