Every schoolchild here learns the legend of "the great Yu," whose prodigious feats of canal building and drainage ditch digging 4,000 years ago put an end to killer floods on the Yellow River.

这里的每一个学龄儿童都知道大禹的传说，他的伟大功绩在于4000年前修筑了河渠和排水沟，终止了当时黄河洪水的泛滥。

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Every schoolchild here learns the legend of "the great Yu," whose prodigious feats of canal building and drainage ditch digging 4, 000 years ago put an end to killer floods on the Yellow River.

这里的每一个学龄儿童都知道大禹的传说，他的伟大功绩在于4000年前修筑了河渠和排水沟，终止了当时黄河洪水的泛滥。

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It also resurrects a proposal that's been controversial for 30 years-a giant, ten-billion-dollar ditch known as the Peripheral Canal that would bypass the delta altogether.

这些措施使得一个争论了30年的话题又重新浮出水面，耗资100亿美元的外围运河是否要整体绕开三角洲地区？

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But the most fearsome of these fences isn't "The Chair, " a 5-foot-3 high hedge fronted by an open ditch, the sharp bend of the "Canal Turn, " or even the dreaded "Becher's Brook, " with its steep 6-foot-5 drop.

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