The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Because there's not a lot of room between the canals, that's why they're so steep when you walk up these things.

由于运河之间的陆地空间狭小,这就解释了为何你上楼时会觉得很陡峭

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Thus, the city structure itself, the way the city was built with houses along the canals reflects the economic primacy of global trade.

因此城市按照这个特点形成了自身的布局,沿着水道而修筑房屋的建筑特色,这也印证了其全球贸易中心的地位

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As part of the plan, the Army Corps of Engineers built roads, canals and water-control systems throughout South Florida.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

It's the time in which but it's the time in which long distance commerce began to take hold, because of transportation revolutions: canals, roads, railroads in particular.

它是一个时期,这是一个远距离商业开始产生影响的时代,主要原因便是运输方式的革新,运河,公路,特别是铁路

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One of them said: "As soon as the canals at Vicksburg are finished, we are going to cut a canal across the upper part of Florida.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

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

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So they built a system of canals to bring water down from the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

You have 500 miles of canals dug just in the middle decades of the seventeenth century.

仅在十七世纪中叶,这里就开凿了,五百英里的人工运河

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By this time, the Union soldiers had become experts at digging canals.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

You've got these warehouses along the canals and here's where the bankers-- the Dutch had the most, along with the English, had sophisticated banking system in the world.

你已经见过了这些运河旁的仓库了,这些银行家们,大部分来自于荷兰,同时也来自英国,他们拥有世界上最复杂的的银行系统

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Boats also traveled along man-made canals which strengthened local economies.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Now, here, these are houses that are built along the canals.

再看这个,这个是造在运河旁的住宅楼

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Mister Lowell's book, "Mars and Its Canals."

VOA: special.2010.07.11

It was the romantic--and by the way, about 3,300 miles of such canals would be built by the middle of the 1850s, all for the purpose of commerce, and to move people.

顺便说下,这是多么浪漫的事,在五十年代中期,为了商业运输和劳力流通,而建造的这类运河总长达3300英里

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In St.Petersburg, almost on the same latitude as Anchorage Alaska, residents are cooling off by jumping into normally icy canals.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The canals were used to transport goods.

这些运河被用来运送货物

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Many of these jobs are helping farmers at the same time: improving agricultural canals, rural roads,and planting trees to prevent erosion,for example.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

But what you have are these canals.

当时他们开凿了这些运河

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It made its backers rich. Financiers in the Washington,D.C., area also knew what canals meant to cities like Venice in Italy and Tsaritsyn - later called Stalingrad and Volgograd - in Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05