Background: This massive structure, which mixes cable-stayed spans and typical highway bridge elements, opened in 2008 after nearly 10 years of planning.

背景：这个庞大的建筑物融合了斜拉桥桥墩和典型的公路桥元素，筹划了接近10年之久，在2008年开通。

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Building a bridge in the Yangtze River meant breaking another record-at 120 meters, the Sutong has the deepest foundation of any cable-stayed bridge.

在扬子江上建造桥梁同时也意味着打破了另一项记录：苏通大桥拥有超过任何斜张桥的120米深桥基。

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It took immense audacity to build a cable-stayed road-bridge spanning the valley of the river Tarn, near Millau, southern France.

建造这样一座横跨法国南部米约附近的塔恩河河谷的巨大斜拉桥需要惊人的勇气。

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Spanning nearly 10 miles, the bridge is the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world.

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In 1993, the French department of public works staged an open competition to build a high bypass bridge between plateaus at the top of the gorge, based on an initial concept by its engineer, Michel Virlogeux, who proposed a multispan, cable-stayed bridge with a phalanx of seven masts supporting cable fans.

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The two cable-stayed portions of the bridge were added when local fishermen protested that it would block their access to the sea.

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