panama canal

基本解釋

The Panama Canal joins two oceans.
巴拿馬運(yùn)河連通兩大洋。
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Through the Panama Canal it is linked with Atlantic ports of Americas and Europe.
通過(guò)巴拿馬運(yùn)河，它與美國(guó)和歐洲的大西洋港口相連。
You might hope that this columnist would travel by leisurely boat through the Panama Canal but he, too, wings it, when work calls, over the great circles close to the melting poles.
你或許希望這篇文章的專(zhuān)欄作家能悠閑地坐著輪船穿越巴拿馬運(yùn)河。不過(guò)，儅工作召喚之時(shí)，他卻生出雙翼，繞很一大圈來(lái)到了冰雪融化的極點(diǎn)。

For years, shipbuilders limited the size of many ships so that they could fit through the Panama Canal.
A study was made to decide which would be a better place for the canal -- Panama or Nicaragua.
Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

Sunday morning we entered the Pacific side of the Panama Canal at the Miraflores locks.
FORBES: Cruising Through The Panama Canal